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Exploring the First Vision

By Steven C. Harper

Book information

Publisher
Deseret Book Company
Year
2012
ISBN
9781629736105, 9780842528184
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1810029 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-11-02 16:26:44
Religion & Spirituality; Nonfiction; REL046000

Description

The writing of history does not occur in a vacuum. The scholarship that went before set the stage for the debates of the present. This is particularly evident as one studies the historiography of Joseph Smith's First Vision. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, Latter-day Saint historians came to understand that they could use research from scholars with opposing viewpoints as a catalyst to propel their own work forward and strive for a more accurate depiction of the past. This disciplinary shift influenced Mormon historical studies of the First Vision.

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