Peter Pan from NevilleNevilleLand takes on... Midgley?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:15 pm
Midgley is not pleased with volume 2 of Saints:
Peter Pan has given his opinion on those who criticize the Saints volumes. (fair warning, the brackets at the end are my insertion.)Louis Midgley 5 days ago
It seems that the mess that was made of the second volume in this series got the attention of those working on this series. The person who knows the most about the Church in the South Pacific is Lanny Britsch, who was never consulted. Instead they sought help from Marjorie Newton on New Zealand. They could not have made a more serious mistake....
(please note, the [LOUIS MIDGLEY] in the last line replaces "critic Jonathan Neville." )...I’m at this year’s FAIR conference, and Jed Woodworth just gave a presentation about Saints volume 3. Woodworth is a historian and writer in the Church History Department, and he’s managing historian of Saints, the Church’s multi-volume history that Jonathan Neville has done his level best to criticize it for presenting a “false historical narrative.”
Except for the portions in quotations marks, the following is my paraphrase of Woodworth’s remarks. (I’m looking forward to a recording of the presentation becoming available so I can get an exact transcript.)
Woodworth said, “We have learned that President Nelson is a footnote-reader” and will correct the footnotes in draft manuscripts of Saints that he reviews.
He also said that the First Presidency and other apostles “read every word” of Saints before the volumes are published. President Nelson even once corrected a place in the manuscript that was missing the middle initial in a person’s name.
Woodworth’s comments show that the Brethren are concerned about exacting attention to minute detail, something that’s very odd for a history that supposedly “[doesn’t] present an accurate historical narrative,” as [LOUIS MIDGLEY] has claimed.
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