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Towards reinterpretation, February 22, 2005
The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays On The Past
The New Mormon History is the banner under which many professional historians today approach Latter-day Saint historiographyIt is not surprising that LDS movement would be inspired by the text and form criticism movement that began in the early 20th century. It is not surprising that the primary "battle" is between this new perspective and the more traditional one in LDS movement itself. There is no "new" LDS history as there has never been a "new" Jesus story. Stories are told over and over again by humans and interpreted by others and it is a fact that a historical account of Jesus would be more neutral if it was written today than by the community close to his presumed death, so the same goes for LDS.As always Signature does their best to give a holistic picture thru their selection of essays. The essays don't have the "what really did happen?"-cliché, that many Conservative anti-LDS Christians are famous for. Lancaster handles the issue like Joseph's several accounts of the first vision very "gently". He has no ambition to say the last word. This is clear when Hansen, who became...
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| Author: Conny Svensson - See al.. | It is not surprising that LDS movement would be inspired by the text and form criticism movement that began in the early 20th century. It is not surprising that the primary "battle" is between this new perspective and the more traditional one in LDS movement itself. There is no "new" LDS history as there has never been a "new" Jesus story. Stories are told over and over again by humans and interpreted by others and it is a fact that a historical account of Jesus would be more neutral if it was written today than by the community close to his presumed death, so the same goes for LDS.As always Signature does their best to give a holistic picture thru their selection of essays. The essays don't have the "what really did happen?"-cliché, that many Conservative anti-LDS Christians are famous for. Lancaster handles the issue like Joseph's several accounts of the first vision very "gently". He has no ambition to say the last word. This is clear when Hansen, who became... | 13 | |
| Author: Roger D. Launius (Washin.. | D. Michael Quinn, one of the foremost practitioners of the type of work distinguished as the "New Mormon History," certainly thinks so. He has assembled in this volume a set of fifteen previously published essays and a short epilogue by B. H. Roberts, all demonstrating most ably the basic trends identified as "New Mormon History" (to Quinn a broadly descriptive rather than polemical label). He notes that this type of historical analysis seeks to attain a "functional objectivity" and avoid several "deadly sins of traditional Mormon history" (viii), among them shying away from critical but controversial topics. | 6 | |
| Author: Missing in Action (Idaho.. | Michael Quinn has collected a body of work that is sure to be remembered as one of his least controversial works in general circulation. That's all well and good, but it wasn't as "fun" to read as some of his own writings. | 8 | |
