alexandermsmith
Puritan Board Junior
Has anyone read Fawn Brodie's biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History? Is it considered a good and accurate history of him?
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Has anyone read Fawn Brodie's biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History? Is it considered a good and accurate history of him?
Has anyone read Fawn Brodie's biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History? Is it considered a good and accurate history of him?
Probably not considering all the 1 star reviews: https://smile.amazon.com/No-Man-Kno...r&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar
I've got a few books on my list ahead of this one but when you start it, I wouldn't mind starting it with you. Not sure if there will be much to discuss but I always enjoy sharing a book.
Planning to start it within the next week, dv. I'm also reading James White's books on Mormonism. Got quite interested in the subject after watching his debate with Kwaku El on Apologia Studios and his more recent interaction with him over the Trinity. Didn't know half of what Mormonism actually teaches. It's crazy but fascinating stuff. Joseph Smith certainly knew the value of a "good story".
Sounds good. I've got plenty of other books I'm in the middle of to keep me busy, but didn't want to slow you down!
I liked Krakauer's book too, as well as the one written by his friend Sam Brower, Prophet's Prey. I didn't like that J.K. castigated all religion, but otherwise I thought it was a well written and interested book. He's got a talent for writing.Very good. For what it's worth, I also found the afore-mentioned Krakauer book very interesting, since he covers the historical background as well as the more fundamental groups (which arguably are far closer to Joseph Smith than the mainline LDS is).
But some may inquire, are not the Almighty’s revelations perfect when they are first given? And if so, where was the propriety of the Lord’s adding any thing to them, when they were already perfect? We reply that every word of God is perfect; but He does not reveal all things at once, but adds ‘line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little,’ revealing as the people are able to bear, or as circumstances require…. The Lord, therefore, adds to His own revelations whenever he thinks proper.