Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays - Richard L.
Get this from a library! Believing history: Latter-day Saint essays. (Richard L Bushman; Reid L Neilson; Jed Woodworth) -- Joseph Smith cannot be dismissed as a colorful fraud, Bushman argues, nor seen only as a restorer of religious truth. Entangled in nineteenth-century Yankee culture -- including the skeptical.
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Probably the greatest scholar who happens to be a Latter-day Saint, Richard L. Bushman is a historian of exceptional accomplishment.
The Historian as Latter-Day Saint Faith, history, and the virtues of evangelical diffidence. It is dangerous to make too much of the title of a book, as a title may reflect an inscrutable mixture of authorial intention and marketing savvy, inspiration, and desperation. In the case of Believing History, a new collection of Richard Lyman Bushman's essays, however, the title is an apt summation.
In 2004 Neilson edited his first book with Jed Woodworth, titled Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays. The book is a collection of essays by Richard Lyman Bushman that focuses on the connection between faith and academics, the claims of the Book of Mormon, and placing Mormon founder Joseph Smith in the cultural context of his time. In a Church History review, Quincy D. Newell commented.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, and has established congregations and built temples worldwide.
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Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, and currently occupies the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University in California. Educated at Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received his A.B. magna cum laude, Professor Bushman went on to earn an A.M. in history and a Ph.D.
Richard Lyman Bushman, Believing History: Latter-Day Saint Essays, ed. Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Believing History, ch 16.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes abbreviated as LDS) was officially organized on 6 April 1830 in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, United States with Joseph Smith Jr. as leader and prophet.(1) Although the church was first established in New York, members (also known as “Mormons”) collectively migrated towards the western United States during the mid-19th century.
Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays, Richard Bushman argues that Smith remained largely quiet on his early visions and broke with the revivalist visionaries of his time (who published tracts of their own), by focusing his energy on forming a church.13 A shared consensus amongst these scholars, however, is that Smith was bringing something new to the religious scene by publishing an.
Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays. by Bushman, Richard L. 2004. 289.309 CHURCH. Church History for Latter-day Saint Families. by Valletta, Thomas R. 2004. 289.309 FEARLESS. Fearless in the Cause: Remarkable Stories from Women in Church History. by Nash, Brittany Chapman. 2016. 289.309 SAINTS. Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. by Church of Jesus.
The Latter-day Saint Pioneer Overland Travel database documents almost 60,000 pioneers who immigrated to the Salt Lake Valley by wagon or handcart between 1847 and 1868. New Church History Catalog Discover the library’s digital collections in a streamlined search and viewing experience developed with input from hundreds of patrons.
Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America,, with Claudia Lauper Bushman. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-515022-8; Believing History: Latter-Day Saint Essays, Edited by Jed Woodworth. Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-231-13006-6.
In fairness to Ostler, I know of no book-length treatment of Latter-day Saint epistemology in existence, and this is a woeful gap in our resources as a community of believers. In Chapter 4, Ostler discusses strategies for confronting challenges to faith, and this is an area of the book that shines. He recommends that members study Church.