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Thursday, we’re talking about the controversial career of Mormon historian Leonard Arrington. Arrington was the first professional head of LDS Church History, but his academic rigor and candor didn’t sit well with everyone in the hierarchy. Within a decade, he was removed from office and a number of scholars would eventually face Church discipline. Biographer Greg Prince joins Doug to explain how Arrington changed our understanding of Mormonism and how his legacy is felt in LDS scholarship today.
Greg Prince is an independent historian and the author of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism and his newest Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.
Greg Prince is in Utah to speak at the annual Mormon History Association Conference. It runs June 9-12 at Snowbird Resort. Prince's talk "Leonard Arrington and the History Division: Lessons to Be Learned" is at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 10. For all the Conference details, visit MormonHistoryAssociation.org

Wow, another excellent Radio West Program!

This will be really great to listen to. Thanks for link.

Arrington's portrait used to grace one of the main halls at Temple Square where the other church "historians" portraits reside.

Because of his fall from grace for his education and training in the actual history of the church rather than the fallacy, the portrait came down from its prominent place on the wall, with hopes he too would fade into oblivion.

Well, he defied the odds there too, thank goodness. :)



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