In recent years, Mormon history has become a higher profile area of study, benefiting from the attention of rising numbers of non-Mormon academics as well as groundbreaking scholarly achievements by Church members. This increased attention has propelled Mormon studies in new directions: new disciplines, methodologies, and questions have deeply enriched our knowledge of the Mormon …
Speaker: Gregory A. Prince
Author-Meets-Critics Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency Of Spencer W Kimball
Author-Meets-Critics Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency Of Spencer W Kimball Edward L. Kimball’s highly anticipated study of the landmark Church presidency of Spencer W. Kimball arrived late last year with far less fanfare than it deserved. According to the book’s preface, the author and publisher Deseret Book “[did] not agree on the interpretations or weight …
David O. Mckay’s Lessons For Today’s Church
In the epilogue to the book David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, co-author Greg Prince writes of President McKay: David O. McKay inherited a church that was provincial and backward looking. His immediate predecessors wore beards and came from polygamous families, two powerful symbols that were out of touch with modernism. . …
David O. McKay And The Rise Of Modern Mormonism By Gregory A. Prince
In September 2004, with a presidential election approaching, the state of Utah was prepared to declare itself “Bush Country.” However, this conservative calm was jolted when Utah Valley State College student leaders announced that they had invited liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to speak at their campus. An explosion of outrage tore the community apart, and …
Panel. Twentieth-Century Mormon Leaders’ Views of Race and the LDS Priesthood Ban
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Maybe Not So ‘Great and Abominable’ After All: David O. McKay’s Coming to Terms with Roman Catholicism
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
David O. McKay and Blacks: Building the Foundation for the 1978 Revelation
David O. McKay and Blacks: Building the Foundation for the 1978 Revelation Shortly after David O. McKay became church president in 1951 he traveled to South Africa, the first church president to visit that country. While there, he made an important and impromptu change in the church policy regarding ordination of blacks. While not reversing …
‘A Priest Forever After the Order of Melchizedek’: The Understanding of Priesthood in the LDS and Catholic Traditions with Particular Focus on the Appropriation of Biblical Imagery
‘A Priest Forever After the Order of Melchizedek’: The Understanding of Priesthood in the LDS and Catholic Traditions with Particular Focus on the Appropriation of Biblical Imagery In explicating the concept of priesthood, both the LDS and Catholic traditions draw from a common corpus of biblical material. Yet the presuppositions underlying the interpretation of these …
David O. McKay and the ‘Twin Sisters’: Free Agency and Tolerance
David O. McKay and the ‘Twin Sisters’: Free Agency and Tolerance David O. McKay served as church president for nearly two decades and left a positive legacy that continues to enlighten church leaders and members to this day. He was a highly principled man, both in dealing with individuals and in administering the affairs of …