The Politics of American Religious Identity by Kathleen Flake

Author:Kathleen Flake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

This is what made Joseph Smith the Latter-day Saints’ “perfect man” worthy of memorialization in polished granite. He constituted the ideal seeker, the petitioner who becomes a prophet by means of theophany and unwavering public witness. It was this type of perfection under pressure that the Latter-day Saints themselves aspired to when they built the monument in 1905 and began reading his story with renewed interest.

The second, pivotal event in the narrative is Joseph Smith’s vision of an angel who instructed Smith in the meaning of biblical scripture and directed him to new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The account of this event teaches the second of the three themes celebrated in the Joseph Smith monument: restored truth through divine communication. For twentieth-century leaders the numerous biblical references in Smith’s account of the angel’s instruction provided an additional basis for demonstrating the holy pedigree of several L.D.S. doctrines. Anthon Lund, Joseph F. Smith’s counselor, taught that

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