David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

Prince and Wright, both LDS church members, one the CEO of a business and author of several publications in Mormon history and the other a retired attorney who inherited his aunt's papers, have collaborated in the project of creating a portrait of David O. McKay, the mid-twentieth-century Presi...

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Published inChurch History Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 698 - 699
Main Author Walker, Randi Jones
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Santa Rosa American Society of Church History 01.09.2006
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
20th century
Biographies
Blacks
Book Reviews and Notes
Christianity
Clergy
Mormonism
Nonfiction
Politics
Religion
Utah
Great Basin
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Summary:Prince and Wright, both LDS church members, one the CEO of a business and author of several publications in Mormon history and the other a retired attorney who inherited his aunt's papers, have collaborated in the project of creating a portrait of David O. McKay, the mid-twentieth-century President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Instead of presenting a chronological account of McKay's career, Prince and Wright chose a number of issues that faced the Latter-day Saints during the course of the twentieth century, among them, the nature of revelation and prophecy, the role of blacks in the priesthood, ecumenical questions, the use of new electronic media, the burgeoning church membership and its relationship to the spiritual center of the faith in the Great Basin, and the question of what it meant to be Mormon and American.
ISSN:0009-6407
1755-2613
DOI:10.1017/S0009640700098978