Item Detail
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32799
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English
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Joseph Fielding Smith’s Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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2022
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55
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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1-41
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"In 1963, Joseph Henderson, a non-Mormon from New York, wrote a pointed letter to LDS Church apostle Joseph Fielding Smith asking him about the racial teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The letter triggered a sharp response from Smith, who informed his interrogator that he was 'getting a little fed up on the idea that so many people think I am responsible for the Negro not holding the priesthood.' It is easy to see why Henderson held Smith responsible for the Mormon priesthood ban, which also restricted Black people from temple access. The apostle had authored several books defending the ban and he was the Church’s most aggressive leader condemning Mormon intellectuals who criticized it. Smith saw himself as the guardian of Mormon orthodoxy, not just on matters of race and lineage but also on issues like evolution and doctrinal exegesis. Yet over the course of Smith’s long ministry, and especially during the last decade of his life, he began to envision a more inclusive LDS Church for persons of African ancestry. He took dramatic steps to both convert and retain Black Latter-day Saints. It was less a change in how Smith read scripture and more about the turbulent times in which he lived. The civil rights movement—and more critically Smith’s own awareness of how the priesthood and temple ban affected Black members—convinced him to reimagine a place for them within the Church." [Author]
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