Jo Ann Barnett Shipps (born 1929), known as Jan Shipps, is an American historian specializing in Mormon history, particularly in the latter half of the...

and Samuel. They all said that they "saw and hefted" the plates. See Jan Shipps, "Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition," University of Illinois...

the Eucharist serving as "the Rite of the Consecration of Man". Scholar Jan Shipps describes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as having esoteric...

 204. Shipps 2007, pp. 504–505. Bushman 2013a, p. 206. Helfrich 2011, pp. 234–235. Shipps 2007, p. 510. Helfrich 2011, p. 215. Anderson 2005. Shipps 2007...

0095. JSTOR 10.5406/jmormhist.47.4.0095. S2CID 246615613. Shipps 2000, p. 165. Shipps, Jan (September 2007). "Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph...

"where biography ends and apologetics begin." In a long academic review, Jan Shipps called the book "the crowning achievement of the new Mormon history,"...

two works, The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836, edited by Jan Shipps and John W. Welch in 1994, and The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854–1880...

living there under the direction of this nineteenth-century Moses was, as Jan Shipps has reminded us, a transformative experience." Paul, Rodman W. (December...

denied involvement, saying the JWHA Journal did not speak for the church. Jan Shipps commented that "faith seemed endangered and help and comfort were needed"...

rended the initial movement, Community of Christ emerged as what historian Jan Shipps called a simultaneous "new creation" and "extension... of the original"...