David L. Paulsen
David L. Paulsen earned a JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He retired from BYU after teaching philosophy there for thirty-nine years. David has published extensively in defense of our Mormon faith in BYU Studies, the Harvard Theological Review, Faith and Philosophy, The International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, and in other venues. He coauthored with Donald Musser Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies. He has two more books under way: Are Christians Mormon? Joseph Smith's Teachings and Converging Christian Theologies and The Earliest Mormon Understanding of God: Modalism and Other Myths. After his retirement from BYU, David and his eternal companion, Audrey, served a mission in Iceland.
BYU Studies Publications
- “A Mother There”: A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven
- Are Christians Mormon?: Reassessing Joseph Smith's Theology in His Bicentennial
- Jesus Was Not a Unitarian
- Joseph Smith and the Problem of Evil
- Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World
- Open and Relational Theology: An Evangelical in Dialogue with a Latter-day Saint
- The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text, Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Michael E. Marmura
- The Reverend Dr. Peter Christian Kierkegaard's "About and Against Mormonism" (1855)
- The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform
- Theological Underpinnings of Baptism for the Dead
- Two books on Christian theology
- What Does It Mean to Be a Christian?: The Views of Joseph Smith and Søren Kierkegaard