Restless Pilgrim: Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-Day Saint History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252086267)

Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jenson tirelessly carried out his office's archival mission and advocated for fixed recordkeeping to become a duty for Latter-day Saints. Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno offer a new in-depth study of Jenson's long life and career. Their account follows Jenson from his arrival as a Danish immigrant to 1860s Utah through trips around the world to secure documents from far-flung missions, and on to his public life as a newspaper columnist and interpreter of LDS history. Throughout, Jenson emerges as a figure dedicated to the belief that recorded history united past and present Latter-day Saints in heaven and on earth--and for all eternity.

Engaging and informed, Restless Pilgrim is a groundbreaking study of an important figure in Latter-day Saint intellectual life during a transformative era in Church history.

Author: Reid L. Neilson, Scott D. Marianno
ISBN-10: 0252086260
ISBN-13: 9780252086267
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.02d