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A Voice in the Wilderness - The 1888-1930 General Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson (Hardcover)
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A Voice in the Wilderness - The 1888-1930 General Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson (Hardcover)
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In April 1888, Andrew Jenson, Danish immigrant and convert to the
Mormon faith, received an unexpected invitation from church leaders
to speak at their general conference. Jenson was an outsider to
this conference tradition, a layman whose only standing before the
main body of Latter-day Saints came from a contracted position with
the Church Historian's Office. Forty-two years later, in April
1930, Jenson offered his twenty-eighth and final general conference
sermon. He had become the voice of institutional record keeping in
his over forty-year career as an Assistant Church Historian. His
sermons demonstrated the growth and expansion of the Mormon general
conference tradition in the twentieth century, as they placed the
Latter-day Saint story front and center for church members to learn
from and celebrate. In addition, Jenson urged conference goers to
keep better personal and institutional records and believed he was
often the solitary advocate for church record keeping and
historical preservation. A Voice in the Wilderness presents all
twenty-eight of Andrew Jenson's general conference sermons, with
introductions and annotations that set them within their historical
and religious contexts. His speeches capture a unique period in
Mormon history, one of institutional change, accommodation, and
growth. This study of Jenson's sermons uncovers the richness and
diversity that thrives just beneath the surface of official
ecclesiastical discourse.
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