Item Detail
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18084
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English
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"As Neither Apologist nor Cynic : Filling in the Gap and Keeping Theologians Honest"
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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2005
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25
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7-17
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Scherer, historian for the Community of Christ, gave this John Whitmer Historical Association Presidential Address on 25 September 2004 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He states that most of the questions he receives as church historian deal with polygamy, the Book of Mormon, and "the historical circumstances for revelation." He shares three examples of questions that fall within these categories, and then states that in the Community of Christ he perceives "a huge gap of understanding between the general membership's awareness of the church story and the findings of current scholarship." He offers the following three suggestions on how to better share the scholarship of the members of the John Whitmer Historical Association: 1) digitize articles from the "JWHA Journal" and place them on the Internet, 2) create a traveling scholars program, and 3) charter a "modern day University of the City of Nauvoo."