Exploring the First Vision - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0842528180 ISBN 13: 9780842528184

Publisher: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2012

Synopsis

Today's scholars of Joseph Smith's First Vision stand on the shoulders of giants. This volume reproduces some of the seminal articles written by the giants who have studied it for half a century. It is a monument to their contributions.The past of First Vision scholarship is indispensable to the present. Those who study the First Vision today depend very much on the works of the scholars that are reprinted in this volume. Moreover, these scholars discovered and published much of the source material on which their articles are based and on which we depend.Scholarly debate and criticism are important elements of the historical discipline because the contest of ideas leads to deeper research and more thorough analysis. Certain historians setting out to discredit Joseph Smith's claims were central to the formation of subsequent First Vision scholarship because their work proposed the questions that later formed the historical debate. Subsequently, Latter-day Saint scholars responded to the challenges with an increase energy that greatly benefited the study of early Mormonism.

Edition details

• Publisher: BYU Religious Studies Center
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0842528180
• ISBN 13: 9780842528184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Dodge Samuel Alonzo, Harper Steven C.