Product Description 
While existing artwork that portrays the Restoration is rich and beautiful, until now many key events in Latter-day Saint history have surprisingly never been depicted to accurately represent the historical record. The purpose of this volume is to produce paintings of some of the underrepresented events in order to expand our understanding of the Restoration. Each image includes a richly researched historical background, some artistic insights into the painting's composition, an application section providing one way this history may inform our present faith, and an analysis section offering potent questions that can be considered for further discussion. Through these new paintings, artist, author, and professor Anthony Sweat takes readers through a timeline history of pivotal events and revelations of the early Restoration. This book is not just a wonderful art book; it is also a pedagogical book using art as a launching pad to learn, evaluate, apply, and discuss important aspects of Latter-day Saint history and doctrine as readers repicture the Restoration. 
 About the Author 
Anthony R. Sweat is an associate teaching professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He received his bachelor's degree in painting and drawing and his PhD in curriculum and instruction. He is the author of several books, most recently Seekers Wanted and The Holy Invitation. Anthony is a regular speaker at Latter-day Saint events and conferences. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of seven children.

Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding

Anthony R. Sweat

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Product Description This volume explores events and teachings of the early years of the Restoration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Featuring scholars from Brigham Young University, the Church History Department, and the Joseph Smith Papers, the collection of prominent materials previously produced by the BYU Religious Studies Center is designed as a companion to personal and family study of the Doctrine and Covenants and Church history. Chapters explore Joseph Smith's accounts of his First Vision, the translation of the Book of Mormon, and the restoration of priesthood power. Doctrinal teachings about consecration, Zion, the kingdoms of glory, and work for the dead are also investigated, as are harrowing experiences in Liberty and Carthage Jails and the exodus to the West. About the Author Scott C. Esplin is a professor of Church history and doctrine as well as the publications director of the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning book Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo, as well as numerous other books and articles on the Doctrine and Covenants and the history of the Church. He earned a PhD in educational leadership and foundations from BYU and taught seminary and institute prior to joining the faculty of Religious Education.

Raising the Standard of Truth: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Early Restoration

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Scott C. Esplin

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has an important history in Washington, DC. With the exception of cities where the Church has been headquartered, it can be argued that no American city has had more influence on the history of the Church than the nation's capital. This volume takes a fresh look at the history, people, and places in Washington, DC, that have affected the Church. Beginning with Joseph Smith's earliest interactions with the federal government in the 1830s, the Church's progress has been shaped by leaders and members interacting in Washington. In 2019, faculty from the Department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University traveled to Washington to study that history. This volume is filled with their essays on many of the topics they explored. Latter-day Saints in Washington, DC helps readers appreciate the sometimes complicated yet cooperative relationship between the Church and the federal government. It chronicles many of the Saints and statesmen who have worked to bring the Church out of obscurity and onto a national and international stage.

Latter-day Saints in Washington, DC: History, People, and Places

VARIOUS

The secret of the afterlife or the spirit world that we coexist with is finally revealed!\nThe Laws of Secret: Awaken to this New World and Change Your Life reveals the extensive roadmap of the spirit world or afterlife which we coexist with in our daily life. It also provides the mechanism and logic behind the negative spiritual influences including Novel Coronavirus infection and how to overcome them. Learn how to avoid the unwanted invisible influences and manage your life to be more delightful and purposeful, and, with ‘the new perspective’ offered in this book, make your life shine and beautify the world.\nIn this book you will: 
● Learn the mystical secret which penetrates this world and the afterlife. 
● Discover the extensive roadmap and spirits that reside in the Rear Heaven, and their characteristics. 
● Discover the secret behind virus infection such as COVID-19 and spiritual possession, and how to remove them. 
● Learn the secret of exorcism: the mindset to overcome spiritual disturbances and how to proactively avoid them and remain unaffected. 
● Learn how to create a Spiritual Screen and accumulate Dharma power. 
● Discover the secret of the mystical power of God and the miraculous power of faith which is necessary to overcome the crisis of humanity to bring a prosperous future.

Rescued: The Courageous Journey of Mary Goble Pay

Clark B. Hinckley

This book explores the connections between what scientists know about light empirically and what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have learned about light doctrinally. Each chapter contains discussions on how we see, feel, and know truth (which is light) by relating and connecting physical principles of electromagnetic radiation to gospel truths about light.

The Spiritual Physics of Light: How We See, Feel, and Know Truth

Aaron D. Franklin

This volume celebrates the bicentennial of Joseph Smith's 1820 First Vision of the Father and the Son, a founding event in the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ. Contributors examine the various accounts of the vision, the religious excitement prevalent in the region, the question that prompted Joseph to enter the grove, the powers of darkness that assailed him, and the natural environment and ultimate preservation of the Sacred Grove. This volume brings together some of the finest presentations from a 2020 BYU Church History Symposium.

Joseph Smith and His First Vision: Context, Place, and Meaning, 2020 Church History Symposium

COMPILATION

This volume explores the possibility that mortality is framed and informed by God's love in more ways than we normally suppose. We live within the cosmic embrace of God's love, even when we encounter difficulties. Hence, as the medieval Catholic thinker Catherine of Siena suggested, "All the way to heaven is heaven," because gospel obedience brings joy and, in a perfectly natural way, fits us for the celestial kingdom. In the process we are stretched out along the long arc of God's love. Our hearts turn to others, and not just to those around us but also to our ancestors and generations yet unborn. As we discover the depths of Christ's Atonement, our everyday thinking and conduct begin to hum the miracles of God's love, chief of which is that there is no bottom to that love.

All the Way to Heaven: Discovering God's Love in the Here and Now

David A. Grandy

This third volume by the Book of Mormon Academy at Brigham Young University is a study of the sermon of Samuel the Lamanite through four analytical lenses. The first, a prophetic lens, discusses the roles of prophets, the prophetic promise of “prolonged days,” and Samuel’s prophecies. The second lens is pedagogical, providing readers with a greater understanding of how to teach the sermon. Readers who take advantage of the third lens, which is cultural-theological, will discover a useful framework for comprehending the ethics of wealth in the sermon, witness how Samuel stands up to Nephite discrimination, and benefit from a detailed reading of the sermon that will enable them to grasp how spiritual death divides both Christ and human beings. Lastly, the fourth lens, literary in nature, assists the reader in recognizing a newly identified type-scene, traces possible sources Samuel may have relied on, explores sources Mormon may have turned to as he abridged the work, and studies parallels between the ancient sermon and a form of early American speech known as the “jeremiad.”

Samuel the Lamanite: That Ye Might Believe

Charles Swift

Joseph F. Merrill became the first native Utahn to earn a PhD. Working at the University of Utah, he labored to reconcile the secular world with the spiritual world of his youth. In 1912 he helped establish the first Latter-day Saint seminary at Granite High School. As Church commissioner of education, he helped establish the institutes of religion, with a mission to allow college students to reconcile the secular truths learned in university settings with the truths of the gospel. He created the Religion Department at Brigham Young University and encouraged young scholars to produce professional studies of the Latter-day Saint religion. In 1933 Merrill was called as an Apostle, and in that role he continued his work to modernize the Church. In the final years of his life, Merrill continued to work to show that science and religion could be reconciled.

Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill, Scientist, Educator, and Apostle

Casey Paul Griffiths

In general conference, President Russell M. Nelson spoke about poverty and other humanitarian concerns, declaring, “As members of the Church, we feel a kinship to those who suffer in any way. . . . We heed an Old Testament admonition: ‘Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy’ [Deuteronomy 15:11]” (“The Second Great Commandment,” Ensign, Nov. 2019). President Nelson’s linking of Old Testament law with modern social concerns highlights the continued relevance of the Old Testament for confronting modern challenges, including poverty, ethnocentrism, and the world’s growing refugee crisis.

Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament (50th BYU Sperry Symposium)

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