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Reflections of a Mormon Historian
Essays by Leonard J. Arrington, Edited by Reid L. Neilson, and Ronald W. Walker
Conflict between matters of faith and historical truth has been a conundrum at the heart of doing and telling the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). Some of the best essays on that topic were written by Leonard J. Arrington, perhaps the best-known member of the group of professionals who founded the New Mormon History of the late twentieth century. Now, Arrington’s essay on history and the Mormons are collected in a single source work.
Arrington rose to prominence during the so-called “flowering of Mormon history.” In a precedent-breaking move, he was made Church Historian in January 1972, the first professional historian to... more |
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