Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel Volume 2 Number 1 Article 13 4-1-2001 Vol. 02 No. 1 Religious Educator Religious Educator Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Educator, Religious. "Vol. 02 No. 1 Religious Educator." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 2, no. 1 (2001). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol2/iss1/13 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. RE COVER FALL 2001 10/17/01 10:26 AM Page 1 THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR • PERSPECTIVES ON • GOSPEL THE PERSPECTIVES RESTORED THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR Choosing the “Good Part” Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Date of Lehi’s Departure The Sanctity of Food: A Latter-day Saint Perspective The Faith of a Prophet: BrighamYoung’s Life and Service—— VOL 2 NO 1 • 2001 A Pattern of Applied Faith Elder D. Todd Christofferson Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure S. Kent Brown and David Rolph Seely The Faith The Sanctity of Food: A Mormon Perspective Paul H. Peterson of a Prophet: Choosing the “Good Part” Brent L. Top BrighamYoung’s Life and Service “He That Hath the Scriptures, Let Him Search Them” Elder D. Todd Christofferson Gaye Strathearn What Is Education? RELIGIOUS CENTER STUDIES • BRIGHAM UNIVERSITY YOUNG Matthew O. Richardson Reproving with Sharpness——When? Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies Ray Huntington and Keith J. Wilson “And I Saw the Hosts of the Dead, Both Small and Great”: Joseph F. Smith, World War I, and His Visions of the Dead Richard E. Bennett Preservation of Life as Manifested in the Lives of Latter-day Prophets David F. Boone VOL 2 VOL NO 1 • 2001 RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER • BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Religious Educator Intro pages 10/17/01 10:25 AM Page 1 RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 2001 Religious Educator Intro pages 10/17/01 10:25 AM Page 3 “Occasionally, Brigham Young spoke of a key to faith that few seem to appreciate fully—true faith is faith in Jesus Christ and comes from Him, a gift of the Spirit. In the end, Brigham Young’s faith was not based simply on experience or the evidence of God’s hand in blessing the faithful but on the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Elder D. 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Religious Educator Intro pages 10/17/01 10:25 AM Page 6 vi Editors’ Introduction Several outstanding periodicals dealing with scripture, doctrine, and Church history are currently being published at Brigham Young University, such as BYU Studies and the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. The Religious Educator, however, is designed to serve the interests and needs of those who study and teach the gospel on a regular basis. Although other journals cover topics of interest to our readers, the distinct focuses of The Religious Educator are on teaching the gospel, publishing studies on scripture, doctrine, and LDS Church history, and sharing the messages of outstanding devotional essays. The contributions to each issue are carefully reviewed and edited by experienced teachers, writers, and scholars. The primary intended audiences for The Religious Educator are serious students of the Restoration, early-morning seminary teachers, and full- time faculty in the Church Education System, including religion professors throughout the Brigham Young University educational system. In every issue, we plan a selection of articles that will be helpful and appealing to this diverse audience. In addition, we anticipate that articles we select will appeal to anyone interested in perspectives on the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. The delay between volume 1 and volume 2 of The Religious Educator resulted from our work in producing a new format, establishing workable procedures to ensure scholarly work of the highest quality, and identi- fying the unique service role we intend to provide readers. We hope you will enjoy this initial volume under our new editorship, and we look forward to publishing articles that will be helpful to all readers. We invite readers’ suggestions and comments and look forward to receiving manuscripts for possible publication. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Editor-in-Chief Ted D. Stoddard, Associate Editor Religious Educator Intro pages 10/17/01 10:25 AM Page 7 vii Table of Contents 1 The Faith of a Prophet: Brigham Young’s Life and Service— A Pattern of Applied Faith Elder D. Todd Christofferson 15 Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure S. Kent Brown and David Rolph Seely 33 The Sanctity of Food: A Latter-day Saint Perspective Paul H. Peterson 47 Choosing the “Good Part” Brent L. Top 57 “He That Hath the Scriptures, Let Him Search Them” Gaye Strathearn 73 What Is Education? Matthew O. Richardson 83 Reproving with Sharpness—When? Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell 95 From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies Ray Huntington and Keith J. Wilson 105 “And I Saw the Hosts of the Dead, Both Small and Great”: Joseph F. Smith, World War I, and His Visions of the Dead Richard E. Bennett 127 Preservation of Life as Manifested in the Lives of Latter-day Prophets David F. Boone Religious Educator Intro pages 10/17/01 10:25 AM Page 8 Brigham Young, ca. 1864, Charles R. Savage Courtesy of Neal A. and Colleen Hinckley Maxwell. Religious Educator 10/17/01 10:21 AM Page 1 1 The Faith of a Prophet: Brigham Young’s Life and Service— A Pattern of Applied Faith1 Elder D. Todd Christofferson Elder D. Todd Christofferson serves as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy and is Executive Director of the Family and Church History Department. Brigham Young was a prophet with few peers and a man of unusual accomplishments.