Richard bushman testimony of faith
In this very wide-ranging conversation, Richard spoke about his own early journey from agnosticism to faith; why learning history, and learning from history....
See, additionally, Professor Bushman's chapter in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars.
Richard Lyman Bushman is a noted historian who authored “Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling,” and is the festschrift honoree of “To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman.”
What is the story behind To Be Learned is Good?
Richard Bushman: The collection grew out of a suggestion of Jerry Bradford’s for a festschrift in my honor. We have been acquainted for many years, and he knew my work as an early American and religious historian. Jerry was director of the Maxwell Institute during many of the years when it was sponsoring the summer seminar on Mormon culture that Terry Givens and I conducted. The proposal was a good-will gesture of a friend and colleague.
In your essay, you write about a faith-crisis during your sophomore year in college and how your own perception of it evolved with time.
Could you expound on the excerpt, “Was I really doubting during my sophomore year? Or was I only
