Messianic History: Reading the Lectures on Faith

Authors

Adam Scott Miller, Brigham Young University
Dr. Ed Cutler, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Messianic tradition, Lectures of Faith, Mormon studies

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

Writing history is about producing meaningful constellations of past and present events. The task of the historian is to survey the past in search of neglected texts and images that align with and illuminate the needs of the present era. For Mormonism, the Lectures on Faith are capable of producing such a constellation. The Lectures remind us of inherent tensions and possibilities that the familiar movement of time easily conceals. Their now marginal status provides them with a certain kind of intimate distance from which to view both our past and present.

Recommended Citation

Miller, Adam Scott and Cutler, Dr. Ed (2014) "Messianic History: Reading the Lectures on Faith," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 609.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/609