Item Detail
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30911
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1
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1
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English
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Restoration and the "Turning of Things Upside Down" : What Is Required of an LDS Perspective
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Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy in Religion and Psychotherapy
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1998
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23
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1
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Provo, UT
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AMCAP (Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotheapists)
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1-30
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The founding events of the Restoration are the appearance ofthe Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove and the appearance of Moroni, ofJohn the Baptist and later, of Peter, James, and John; also included among these events is Joseph Smith's actual receiving a set of metal plates. These are events that either occurred or did not. These precipitating events give to Mormonism the interpretive framework within which we understand scripture and philosophy. We are, as a people, obliged to certain positions and interpretations because of the literal occurrence of these events. This is not to say that interpretation is unimportant, nor even that these founding events are somehow independent of interpretation. It is simply to say that the truth claims of Mormonism do not rest on a merely interpretative foundation.