History, Significance to Latter-Day Saints
History's significance to Latter-day Saints: the theological importance of historical record-keeping and God's hand in human events.
71 documents · 9 libraries · 1973–2026
Emphasis over time
Peak: 9 documents in 2021
Documents tagged with this topic each year. Libraries cover different years (Liahona starts in 2021), so the rate compares eras more fairly than the count.
Where it lives
- Religious Educator20 documents
- General Conference12 documents
- BYU Studies11 documents
- Liahona Articles10 documents
- BYU Speeches5 documents
- Interpreter5 documents
- Scripture Central4 documents
- Gospel Topics and Questions2 documents
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies2 documents
Latest
Liahona Articles
Remembering the Lord’s Hand Through Saints (opens in a new tab)
Beverley Vermeulen · Aug 2026
Liahona Articles
Church Members Embrace History to Build Faith (opens in a new tab)
Newsroom · Apr 2025
Liahona Articles
The Main Character in Church History (opens in a new tab)
Keith A. Erekson · Apr 2025
BYU Studies
What Are We to Make of the Gold Plates? (opens in a new tab)
Richard Lyman Bushman · 2025
Scripture Central
How Do Latter-day Saints See God‘s Hand in History? (opens in a new tab)
Jan 2024
BYU Studies
Preserving History (opens in a new tab)
Wayne Crosby and W. Tyson Thorpe · 2024
Scripture Central
Why Is the “Pentecostal” Season in Kirtland Believable? (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Oct 2021
BYU Studies
Narrating Religious Heritage (opens in a new tab)
Miranda Wilcox · 2021
Interpreter
Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient and Modern Times (opens in a new tab)
Richard E. Turley Jr., Stephen O. Smoot · 2021
Religious Educator
There Are Two Sides to Every Story (opens in a new tab)
Keith A. Erekson · 2021
Earliest
General Conference
“I Will Go and Do the Things Which the Lord Hath Commanded” (opens in a new tab)
L. Tom Perry · Oct 1973
Most frequent voices
- L. Tom Perry4 documents
- Keith A. Erekson3 documents
- and Sister Ihesiene2 documents
- Gordon B. Hinckley2 documents
- Marlin K. Jensen2 documents
- Steven L. Olsen2 documents
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