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Chargement... The Mormon Experience: A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS (original 1979; édition 1992)par Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints par Leonard J. Arrington (1979)
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In this case, Arrington and Bitton succeeded admirably. Both were men of faith--Arrington once served as LDS Church Historian (a period known to Mormon historians as "the age of Camelot"), and Bitton was his chief assistant. When both were overthrown by conservative Mormons--chiefly Boyd K. Packer, now the President of Mormonism's so-called "Quorum of the Twelve" and next in line to the Church's presidency--Arrington went quietly to BYU and Bitton to the U of Utah, retiring into academia. Yet both continued to produce works of substance, thwarting Packer's hope to have silenced them permanently.
"The Mormon Experience" does not accept Mormonism's faith claims blindly, nor does it discount them. It is a fine example of two faithful individuals combining their faith with scholarship. Their fine and courageous example has since been a lodestar for many who wrestle with Mormonism's rather outrageous historical claims--angels toting gold plates; temple ceremonies that smack of historical anomalies and Masonic ceremonies; and Joseph Smith's voracious sexual appetites--when weighed against many of its genuine theological insights and innovations.
I for one am glad to have this volume in my library. ( )