Michael Sanders Posted May 14, 2016 Posted May 14, 2016 I need some help locating an article (I've already searched google several times) that I read within the last year - I don't recall if it was in a journal or a stand alone article. I'm 99.5% sure it was authored by Lyndon W. Cook and he provided good contextualization and analysis for some changes in the united firm revelations or touching on the law of consecration policy changes between Joseph and the bishopic on how it was implemented. I skimmed the article and thought it was an excellent reading of the evidence which reconciled many things in my mind. I thought I had bookmarked the article and cannot for the life of me find it. It was not taken from his little book written several years ago titled "The Law of Consecration" but rather was a more recent writing. I'm almost positive it was written by Lyndon Cook - and I'm trying to locate it again with no success. Any of you know what I'm referring to? Have a reference or weblink? I know I'm not going crazy and it was a really nice write-up. Mike Sanders Book of Mormon Believer Independence, MO
Nevo Posted May 14, 2016 Posted May 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Michael Sanders said: I need some help locating an article (I've already searched google several times) that I read within the last year - I don't recall if it was in a journal or a stand alone article. I'm 99.5% sure it was authored by Lyndon W. Cook and he provided good contextualization and analysis for some changes in the united firm revelations or touching on the law of consecration policy changes between Joseph and the bishopic on how it was implemented. Was it this one? https://atom.lib.byu.edu/smh/20678/ The best article I know of on the United Firm is Max H. Parkin, "Joseph Smith and the United Firm."
Michael Sanders Posted May 15, 2016 Author Posted May 15, 2016 Thanks Nevo - but those aren't the ones.
Robert F. Smith Posted May 16, 2016 Posted May 16, 2016 You might be interested in a guy from Independence, MO, who wrote a lot on that subject back in the 1980s. Raveill, Jack, ed., The Revelation Revisions of 1835, 2nd ed. (1984). You might be able to find a copy in the RLDS Archives there.
Michael Sanders Posted May 16, 2016 Author Posted May 16, 2016 Robert, I have a copy of Jack's book and knew him quite well - he has long since gone to his reward. I think I found the article I was looking for, Robert J. Woodford, Joseph Smith and the Revelations: From Manuscripts to Publication, a paper presented in June 2005 and printed in MHS Fall 2005, pp. 135-144. They say memory is the first thing to go... Mike
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