num_pages: 272
description: Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship. Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982.
language: English
title: Adventures of a Church Historian
titlecomplete: Adventures of a Church Historian
genres: Church, History, Religion, Lds, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Mormonism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 128
publisher: University of Illinois Press