Item Detail
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33029
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English
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The Hidden Records of Central Utah and the Struggle for Religious Authority
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Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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316-343
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"John Brewer and his successors inherited a Mormon fascination with hidden scripture and physical artifacts that traces back to Joseph Smith. Brewer, like Smith, understood the allure of physical objects. He cast himself in the mold of Mormonism's founding prophet, seeking and promising treasures beyond description. These treasures symbolized not material wealth but spiritual riches: proof of the ancient American setting of the Book of Mormon and fulfillment of end-times prophecies. In an age of science and special effects, to enchant to world requires a certain amount of evidence that we can see... And it could also be the case that scriptures matter to modern people more for what they signify than for what they say. Modern people seem more preoccupied with whether (and which) religion is true than with the finer points of theology. Scripture is a resource mined for proof more than for religious messages. Like the Book of Mormon, Brewer's records perhaps derive religious power more from their physicality-- their objectness-- than from anything they teach." [Author]
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