‘Mormon Land’: The conservative LDS prophet who led fights over evolution, the age of the Earth and orthodoxy

He stirred more controversy than son-in-law Bruce R. McConkie, author of “Mormon Doctrine,” but Joseph Fielding Smith stands as “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century.”

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Joseph Fielding Smith, former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scholar Matthew Bowman discusses his new book, “Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian,” in the latest "Mormon Land" podcast.