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Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, Editors. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research & Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2000, 6.5×9″ hardbound, 622 pages. ISBN: 0934893454
Richard Lloyd Anderson–known as a devoted teacher, careful writer, and perfect gentleman–has had a great impact on the study of LDS Church history. In this volume, friends and colleagues have written 18 scholarly studies in his honor. Several of these pages were presented on 8 March 1997 at a conference titled “Pioneeers of the Restoration”
In his introduction to this volume, Andrew H. Hedges reminds us of Anderson’s notable contribution to the study of LDS Church History: “Trained as both a historian and lawyer, the cautious, probing, analytical approach he brought to the field more than forty years ago revoloutionized the way scholars have researched and written about Joseph Smith and the church he restored. Taking nothing for granted, Anderson reexamined the sources we thought we all knew, asked questions we never considered, and mined archives we never knew existed. The result was nothing short of spectacular, as the publications resulting from these efforts have largely rewritten our understanding of many of the seminal experiences of the early church and her founding prophet.
Contents:
Second Only to Christ: Joseph Smith in Modern Mormon Piety – James B. Allen
The Ram and the Lion: Lyman Wight and Brigham Young –
Davis Bitton
The Tomb of Joseph – Susan Easton Black
Words of Comfort: Funeral Sermons of the Prophet Joseph Smith – Donald Q. Cannon
Richard Lloyd Anderson and Worldwide Church Growth –
Richard O. Cowan
The Return of Oliver Cowdery – Scott H. Faulring
Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence of the Joseph Smith Papyri – John Gee
Every Kindred, Tongue, and People – Gary P. Gillum
David Whitmer and the Shaping of Latter-day Saint History – Kenneth W. Godfrey
Pleasing the Eye and Gladdening the Heart: Joseph Smith and Life’s Little Pleasures – Andrew H. Hedges
Scenes from Early Latter-day Saint History – Kent P. Jackson
Antiquities, Curiosities, and Latter-day Saint Museums –
Glen M. Leonard
The Role of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible in the Restoration of Doctrine – Robert J. Matthews
The Authorship Debate concerning Lectures on Faith: Exhumation and Reburial – Noel B. Reynolds
John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon – Royal Skousen
Historical Perspectives on the Kirtland Revelation Book – John A. Tvedtnes
Oliver Cowdery’s 1835 Response to Alexander Campell’s 1831 “Delusions” – John W. Welch
Moromon Missiology: An Introduction and Guide to the Sources – David J. Whittaker
A Chronological Bibliography of the Works of Richard Lloyd Anderson – David J. Whittaker, compiler
