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"Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship." "Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982."--BOOK JACKET.
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Adventures of a church historian
1998, University of Illinois Press
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0252023811 9780252023811
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Standing at the gate
How I got into Mormon history
Counselor in Utah State University stake
The fraternity of Mormon scholars
Fhe founding of the LDS Church Historical Department
Conferences with new leaders
Our first publication: Brigham Young's letters to his sons
Other early studies and publications
Story of the Latter-Day Saints and building the city of God
A new pharaoh and new directions
The long-promised day
The Mormon experience
Brigham Young: American Moses
Our move to BYU
The ongoing process of writing Mormon and western history
Writing Latter-Day Saint history: philosophy and testimony
Sources
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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