Item Detail
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English
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Joseph Smith and the Face of Christ
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2020
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53
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2
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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125-141
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I have heard the Joseph Smith story recounted thousands of times over the past seventy-four years since I joined the Church at age ten. I have told it myself thousands of times during my six years of fulltime missionary service; in countless Sunday School, seminary, institute, and priesthood classes; and in the university classes I teach on Mormonism at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley
In all that time, I don't remember a single person speaking of Joseph seeing God’s and Christ's faces. Usually, our focus is on him seeing beings or personages, the latter of which is the word he uses in his accounts of that remarkable day; but, we don't emphasize the most significant aspect of those sublime personages—their faces. [Author]