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In Memoriam : Vinson Synan: Model Of Spirit-Led Leadership, Sally Jo Shelton
In Memoriam : Vinson Synan: Model Of Spirit-Led Leadership, Sally Jo Shelton
Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology
H. Vinson Synan (December 1, 1934—March 15, 2020) was a key successor to David du Plessis, known as Mr. Pentecost, to Catholic and mainline Protestant leaders. Like du Plessis, Synan was a classical Pentecostal who dedicated much of his life to promoting the move of the Holy Spirit beyond the confines of his own classical Pentecostal denomination, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. His call to this work came in 1972 at an annual Catholic Charismatic Conference held at Notre Dame University when seeing some 8,000participants singing in the Spirit, he came to the conviction that Catholics had indeed received the …
Mordred Had A Good Point, Nathan B. Oman
A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 1 From 1783 To 1820, William Erastus Arnold
A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 1 From 1783 To 1820, William Erastus Arnold
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 2 From 1820 To 1846, William Erastus Arnold
A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 2 From 1820 To 1846, William Erastus Arnold
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
Mordred Had A Good Point, Nathan B. Oman
Joseph Smith’S Many Histories, Richard Bushman
Joseph Smith’S Many Histories, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
I wish to explore, in broad general terms, the histories to which historians have attached Joseph Smith. As you can imagine, the context in which he is placed profoundly affects how people see the Prophet, since the history selected for a subject colors everything about it. Is he a money-digger like hundreds of other superstitious Yankees in his day, a religious fanatic like Muhammad was thought to be in Joseph’s time, a prophet like Moses, a religious revolutionary like Jesus? To a large extent, Joseph Smith assumes the character of the history selected for him. The broader the historical context, …
Joseph Smith And Abraham Lincoln, Richard Bushman
Joseph Smith And Abraham Lincoln, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
In a letter to his friend John Stuart, dated March 1, 1840, Abraham Lincoln wrote that Joseph Smith had recently passed through Springfield, Illinois. In a tantalizingly brief report, Lincoln told Stuart that "Speed [another close friend] says he wrote you what Jo. Smith said about you as he passed here. We will procure the names of some of his people here and send them to you before long." The nature of Joseph's comment on Stuart can only be surmised. Joseph had spent the winter in Washington D.C., vainly seeking compensation for the Saints' losses in Missouri in 1839. He …
The Character Of Joseph Smith, Richard Bushman
The Character Of Joseph Smith, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
The title of this essay, "The Character of Joseph Smith," may promise more than can ever be fulfilled. Joseph warned the Saints of the difficulty in trying to understand him. In the King Follett discourse given two months before his death, he told them, "You don't know me--you never will." Another version of the same speech says, "You never knew my heart. No man knows my hist[ory]." He seems to say that what we want to know most--his heart and his history--are not to be found out. No matter how much we study him, we must be cautious about believing …
Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman
Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
The question of refinement cut even more deeply in Utah in the early days when the governance of the territory was at issue. The Latter-day Saints worked with a double handicap in striving to win respect from eastern travelers: in addition to the usual doubts about civilization in the West, the visitors were skeptical about Mormon religious fanaticism. Travelers came expecting that the poor credulous fools who submitted to the rule of Brigham Young would lack education, manners, taste, and intelligence—in short,would be as degraded as the woodcutters Trollope sighted along the banks of the Mississippi. The Saints for their …
Joseph Smith: The Prophet, Richard Bushman, Dean C. Jessee
Joseph Smith: The Prophet, Richard Bushman, Dean C. Jessee
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
This is an encyclopedia article.
1820-1831, Background, Founding, New York Period, Richard Bushman, Larry C. Porter
1820-1831, Background, Founding, New York Period, Richard Bushman, Larry C. Porter
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
This is an encyclopedia article.
Joseph Smith's Family Background, Richard Bushman
Joseph Smith's Family Background, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Because the Latter-day Saints love and honor Joseph Smith, we wish to create for him a family background in perfect harmony with his later life as a prophet. Not that his parents had to be wealthy or well-educated, for we know they certainly were not, but we believe they must have been devout people who taught their son faith in the Christian religion and surrounded him with their love.
Treasure-Seeking Then And Now, Richard Bushman
Treasure-Seeking Then And Now, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Last August I attended the BYU conference on the Mark Hofmann documents where I had an opportunity to reflect on what the documents meant to me. After searching my thoughts and testing my feelings, I came to the conclusion that they meant very little. They did not mean much when they first came out, and their fall from historical authenticity had little effect on me later. That may sound like a strange confession from one who was writing on the early life of Joseph Smith at the very moment the "Salamander" and 1825 Joseph Smith letters came to light, with …
The Character Of Joseph Smith: Insights From His Holographs, Richard Bushman
The Character Of Joseph Smith: Insights From His Holographs, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
What kind of a man was Joseph Smith? His high calling as a prophet intensifies our curiosity about him as a person, but at the same time obscures him from view. As with so many public figures, the official stands in the way of the personal. We can picture him revealing the Lord's will, preaching to the Saints, and sitting in counsel, but we are also interested in him as a father, a friend, a husband, and a man.