Setting the Record Straight: The Word of Wisdom
by Steven C. Harper, Ph.D.
Setting the Record Straight: The Word of Wisdom, authoritatively defines the Word of Wisdom as much more than a simple health code while answering questions about the circumstances that led to its revelation and providing explanations on how it answered both current questions in Joseph Smith's day, and critically important issues in ours.
Steven C. Harper Ph.D. tackles the question of Joseph Smith's own adherence to the Word of Wisdom and vividly traces both the consistent and the changing ways it has been taught and applied throughout LDS history.
Here are the answers to questions such as:
When did the Word of Wisdom become a commandment?
Did Joseph Smith live the Word of Wisdom completely?
What evils and designs exist in the hearts of conspiring men?
How does the Church interpret and apply the Word of Wisdom today?
Historian Steven C. Harper shares his research on the history and substance of the Word of Wisdom in this valuable book for anyone who wants answers to their questions on the Word of Wisdom.
112 pages
Published: January 2008
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