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Verfasser: JesseX Datum: Samstag, den 9. Januar 2010, um 20:57 Uhr Betrifft: "More solid and stable, less flamboyant"
Und genau das ist doch auch richtig, was in dem besagten Artikel steht:
" Mormonism owes its continual rise much more to Brigham Young, the man who led the incipient movement across the Plains, than to Joseph Smith, who began it all with talk of angels and gold plates.
At least thats how Utah researcher Richard Van Wagoner sees it after spending the past 15 years compiling every known Young sermon and discourse from 127 sources.
Van Wagoner sought out original transcripts, rather than the LDS Church-sanctioned Journal of Discourses , in which Youngs words were edited and polished. He also found speeches and statements recorded in other peoples journals.
"Brigham seems to me to have been more solid and stable, less flamboyant, and superior in terms of organizational abilities," says Van Wagoner, an audiologist by training for whom Mormon history is an avocation."
Er war eben solider, weniger extravagant, und überlegen in seinen organisatorischen Fähigkeiten.
Aber eigentlich ist dies kein Novum, und die Wertschätzung seitens der Mormonen in Bezug auf Brigham Young ist ja bekannt.