Val D. Rust

VAL D. RUST is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the Irvine Fourth Ward of the Irvine, California Stake.

Articles

Mormonism and the Radical Religious Movement in Early Colonial New England

Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the early converts to the LDS church, whose religious experiences took them through a refiner’s fire so significant and revolutionary that it helped provide their descendants with the disposition to embrace a new, radical faith.