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Joseph Smith : history, methods, and memory / Ronald O. Barney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 423 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781607817567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BX8695 .J674 2020
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Contents:
The modern study of Joseph Smith -- History and its methods -- Memory as history -- The religious times of Joseph Smith -- Joseph Smith among his contemporaries -- Joseph Smith's declaration : his 1832 history -- Order of the priesthood : restoration -- Order of the priesthood : expansion -- Order of the priesthood : organization -- Underlying the personality of Joseph Smith : its influence on his history -- Underlying the character of Joseph Smith -- Underlying What Joseph Smith thought and taught -- A course of revelation : line upon line, precept upon precept -- Prophet, seer, and revelator.
Subject: "Joseph Smith studies have long been shaped by the polemical atmosphere that surrounds Smith's claims of and to divine authorship. Even after a half-century of serious scholarship, fundamental questions remain about how to best interpret features of Smith's life and writing. Smith's own "History of Joseph Smith" (edited and revised at the beginning of the twentieth century by B. H. Roberts) created an enduring image of the man and influenced Mormon theology, doctrine, and polity for generations. With new historical documents now available, a reappraisal of Smith and Mormon beginnings warrants attention. Ronald O. Barney a former editor of the Joseph Smith Papers applies new interpretations to Joseph Smith in history and memory as he re-examinesSmith's surviving writings and what Smith's contemporaries wrote about him. The book explores the best methodologies for appraising the historical record, a review of Smith's worldand its contextual background, an analysis of his foundational experiences, and a characterization of Smith as a man and prophet. Though the premise of re-evaluation may be unsettling to traditionalists, a modern reconsideration of the historical record's entire range of sources is necessary to fashion a strategy for evaluating Smith and his enduring but complex legacy"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

A new era of Joseph Smith study : preparing the ground -- The modern study of Joseph Smith -- History and its methods -- Memory as history -- The religious times of Joseph Smith -- Joseph Smith among his contemporaries -- Joseph Smith's declaration : his 1832 history -- Order of the priesthood : restoration -- Order of the priesthood : expansion -- Order of the priesthood : organization -- Underlying the personality of Joseph Smith : its influence on his history -- Underlying the character of Joseph Smith -- Underlying What Joseph Smith thought and taught -- A course of revelation : line upon line, precept upon precept -- Prophet, seer, and revelator.

"Joseph Smith studies have long been shaped by the polemical atmosphere that surrounds Smith's claims of and to divine authorship. Even after a half-century of serious scholarship, fundamental questions remain about how to best interpret features of Smith's life and writing. Smith's own "History of Joseph Smith" (edited and revised at the beginning of the twentieth century by B. H. Roberts) created an enduring image of the man and influenced Mormon theology, doctrine, and polity for generations. With new historical documents now available, a reappraisal of Smith and Mormon beginnings warrants attention. Ronald O. Barney a former editor of the Joseph Smith Papers applies new interpretations to Joseph Smith in history and memory as he re-examinesSmith's surviving writings and what Smith's contemporaries wrote about him. The book explores the best methodologies for appraising the historical record, a review of Smith's worldand its contextual background, an analysis of his foundational experiences, and a characterization of Smith as a man and prophet. Though the premise of re-evaluation may be unsettling to traditionalists, a modern reconsideration of the historical record's entire range of sources is necessary to fashion a strategy for evaluating Smith and his enduring but complex legacy"--

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