BYU REL C 225 MIDTERM Study Questions, all with
Answers Verified 100% Correct
What are the four levels of evaluating an official Latter-day Saint teaching? - ✔✔Church
Publications < Repeated Teachings of GA's < United Voice of First Presidency and Twelve <
Harmonized Scriptures
What are five factors for evaluating a historical source? - ✔✔-Is it a primary source?
-Is it a contemporary account?
-Does it have an objective perspective?
-What is its relationship to other sources?
-Are its claims supported by evidence?
What is the Great Apostasy? - ✔✔-Priesthood was taken from the Earth when the wicked
killed the apostles
-Without the apostles and revelation, teachings were corrupted and unauthorized changes
made
What is American Religious Freedom? - ✔✔Government doesn't control the church and the
church doesn't control the government
What is Protestant Reformation? - ✔✔16th century attempt to reform the practices of the
Catholic Church
What is the Second Great Awakening? - ✔✔A period of religious revival beginning in 1799
What is the Burned-over District? - ✔✔Western New York where many religious preachers
taught at camp meetings
, Why are there different First Vision accounts? - ✔✔-Joseph didn't record the account when
it happened
-There are secondary accounts from when Joseph told others about his experience
-Joseph dictated several and only wrote one
How many primary acounts of the First Vision did Joseph write, and when did he write them? -
✔✔-1832
-1835
-1838
-1842
Audience/context for 1832 account - ✔✔Written by Joseph himself, focus was on being
forgiven of his sins
Audience/context for 1835 account - ✔✔told to Robert Matthews in Kirtland, emphasizes his
attempt to discover the true church and the opposition he felt
Audience/context for 1838 account - ✔✔best known today, pubslished in the Times and
Seasons, focus was on beginning the true church
Audience/context for 1842 account - ✔✔written to Chicago Democrat and printed in Times
and Seasons (Wentworth letter), focus on two personages and confusion of which church
Who wrote the secondary accounts of the First Vision, and what unique information does each
of those accounts give us? - ✔✔-Orson Pratt: first written account, a lot of detail
-Orson Hyde: first translated to German
-Levi Richards
-David Nye White
Answers Verified 100% Correct
What are the four levels of evaluating an official Latter-day Saint teaching? - ✔✔Church
Publications < Repeated Teachings of GA's < United Voice of First Presidency and Twelve <
Harmonized Scriptures
What are five factors for evaluating a historical source? - ✔✔-Is it a primary source?
-Is it a contemporary account?
-Does it have an objective perspective?
-What is its relationship to other sources?
-Are its claims supported by evidence?
What is the Great Apostasy? - ✔✔-Priesthood was taken from the Earth when the wicked
killed the apostles
-Without the apostles and revelation, teachings were corrupted and unauthorized changes
made
What is American Religious Freedom? - ✔✔Government doesn't control the church and the
church doesn't control the government
What is Protestant Reformation? - ✔✔16th century attempt to reform the practices of the
Catholic Church
What is the Second Great Awakening? - ✔✔A period of religious revival beginning in 1799
What is the Burned-over District? - ✔✔Western New York where many religious preachers
taught at camp meetings
, Why are there different First Vision accounts? - ✔✔-Joseph didn't record the account when
it happened
-There are secondary accounts from when Joseph told others about his experience
-Joseph dictated several and only wrote one
How many primary acounts of the First Vision did Joseph write, and when did he write them? -
✔✔-1832
-1835
-1838
-1842
Audience/context for 1832 account - ✔✔Written by Joseph himself, focus was on being
forgiven of his sins
Audience/context for 1835 account - ✔✔told to Robert Matthews in Kirtland, emphasizes his
attempt to discover the true church and the opposition he felt
Audience/context for 1838 account - ✔✔best known today, pubslished in the Times and
Seasons, focus was on beginning the true church
Audience/context for 1842 account - ✔✔written to Chicago Democrat and printed in Times
and Seasons (Wentworth letter), focus on two personages and confusion of which church
Who wrote the secondary accounts of the First Vision, and what unique information does each
of those accounts give us? - ✔✔-Orson Pratt: first written account, a lot of detail
-Orson Hyde: first translated to German
-Levi Richards
-David Nye White
