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The article brings up the fact that church members may feel cheated by the Church's official description of history. If a member finds information that conflicts continuum tv with his assumption of the Church's history, there is a risk that they may feel that the church has lied. When complex information be provided in a faith-promoting manner, the information in the context of one's faith, continuum tv understanding. When critics of the church presents the same information, they may in the spirit say that the Church concealed members accurate information. Is there any truth to the claim that the Church has concealed controversial facts from the history of the Church? According to Ash, the answer is both yes and no.
Information may be withheld, both intentionally and unintentionally. To begin with the unintentional, we have to take into account that all the biographies written in earlier times often had the intention to elevate people to give inspiration and role models. Fabricated anecdotes were not uncommon, for example that George Washington chopped down his father's cherry tree. For religious groups could history be used as a tool for evangelism. All information that could harm the movement was expelled in the biography or history discover none. So, of course, was also the case with early Mormon historians. Like many contemporary continuum tv historians, they were not trained in historical description, but was instead influenced by English Puritanism, whose description of history was marked by faith-promoting stories continuum tv of different events.
"These Puritans (as well as early LDS historians) believed That, like the Hebrews before them, They were God's chosen people Whose coming to America was part of God's unfolding plan. "Their history and biography," note three prominent historians, "told the tale of God's dealings as seen In Their staff lives. In short, the Puritan biography and autobiography were Simultaneously scripture continuum tv as well as history. "" Accuracy and realism were ... largely things of the future. '"
For example, Apostle George Q. Cannon, whose faith-promoting stories were intended for young people in the church. Like many contemporary works, issued continuum tv by non Mormons, so the tone was defensive, subjective, one-dimensional and dedicated to the evangelization of a certain principle. Today is often called such works for hagiografer continuum tv ie, biographies of saints. It was not until the mid 1900s that the modern biography came out with his critical approach, multi-dimensional and with a principle of objectivity. The early faith-promoting stories came, however, remain the source of historical knowledge for many members of the Church. Although early SDH historians deliberately withheld challenging and less flattering information, so this procedure was not at all unique to the Mormon Church. Rather, this was the description of history as you would expect from that era.
There are former continuum tv members of the church who complains that they have never heard of some aspects of the Church's history when they took part of the church's Sunday school. Church curriculum, continuum tv however, was to support the Church's mission to bring people to Christ. In fact, very little of the actual description of history is discussed in the church's various class forums. The goal of the classes have simply been helping members to get closer to God, seek the Spirit's guidance and understand gospel principles. To summarize: The church is a place to worship continuum tv God, spiritual ascension and not too deep historical continuum tv discussions.
Ash refers to Elder Marlin K. Jensen as saying that the Church has made no attempt to hide or obscure the history of the Church. It is simply the case that some aspects have not been emphasized so often that it was related to what was being taught at the time. The church can improve themselves by saying that the Church's history, even for their own members? Yes, it can be safely, says Jensen. He believes it can be woven into the seminary, institute, and adult programs. There are also efforts to implement this. The Church has designated staff to create a strategy to get out the Church's history on the internet. We are also working on an initiative to answer the heavier issues. A good start has been The Joseph continuum tv Smith Papers Project. This project has digitized a large proportion of early Mormon documents including continuum tv early copies of the Book of Mormon, early revelations and letters, and t for copies of remaining parts of the Joseph Smith papyri. It is available online and free for everyone who wants to study it.
While the gospel itself is rich, simple, and the only way to eternal happiness then the history of the church rich, complex and multi-dimensional. Unfortunately, this century's members first came into contact with the Church's complexity through critical websites.
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