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Is Critical History forbidden to Latter-day Saints?

Friday,March 2nd, 2012 Leave a comment

On another forum (in another language), we had some discussion about Critical History some while ago. In that discussion, I guess we all were very much for open history. The audience was somewhat self-selected for openness, as it is a site for airing “issues” in a polite, but open way. We should not, by any means, leave the Historiography of LDS restoration to those who do it to look for something unflattering for us. We’re much better off bringing as much as we can to light.

Our theory in principle is, that if we can research the Church history, as well as secular history, with an open mind and without blinding ourselves to contradictory Read more…

Finding the historical “Truth”

Friday,June 17th, 2011 Leave a comment

It’s interesting to notice how easy it is to misunderstand/misinterpret history. Historical “facts” arise from different sources, and it is the historian’s job to sift the documentary evidence and see what kind of balance comes out in the end. And the balance doesn’t necessarily come from the volume of the documentation. Popular lies get reported much more–creating documentary evidence–than the uncomfortable truth. Read more…

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