Some Reflections on the Kingdom and the Gathering in Early Mormon History

1976: Robert Flanders, “Some Reflections on the New Mormon History,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 9 No. 1 (1976): 34–42.

Historical studies embrace the most extensive, intensive, and well-matured of the scholarly endeavors which have the Restoration as their subject. The paucity of critical writings in the various fields of theology and philosophy is by comparison especially striking.