Interesting discussion in Sustone

[Archaea]

http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/searchable/Issue94.asp

THE LARGER ISSUE
By David Bohn
DAVID BOHN is professor of political science at BrighamYoungUniversity.
IN THE SPRING OF 1992, MALCOLM THORP, A respected professor of English history at BrighamYoungUniversity, published an article in defense of the "new Mormon history." I knew he had been working on it for some time. In the nearly seventeen years of our friendship, we had argued-occasionally heatedly-over the philosophical issues that frame the writing of Mormon history. He disagreed with the position that I had advanced in a number of published articles, a position that defended as legitimate and appropriate the way in which Latter-day Saints understand their common past within the context of faith and that opposed as unfounded the claims of revisionist historians that seemed to call for a wholesale reinterpretation of the Mormon past in secular terms.


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He does a fascinating job.