Episode 23: Repicturing the Restoration (Anthony Sweat)
Y Religion
BYU Religious Education
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
While existing artwork that portrays the Restoration is rich and beautiful, until now many key events in early Latter-day Saint history have not been depicted. In this episode, Anthony Sweat discusses his work to paint and write about 25 of these events, including 19th century female healing blessings, the early ordination of Black men like Q. Walker Lewis, the first baptism for the dead, and many others, illustrating why expanding our visual imagery can expand our understanding of the Restoration.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my Y-Religion podcast friends, Anthony Sweat here with you. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to season number two, season numero dose, as they would say in German, of the Y |
| 0:08.9 | religion podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We are so grateful that you are part of our podcast community. |
| 0:13.0 | And we're so honored to be able to bring you in one place and in one podcast some of the recent publications that come from B.O.U. |
| 0:20.2 | Religion professors that deal with |
| 0:22.3 | the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 0:25.0 | Our main goal with this podcast is simply to bless your life, to enlighten and inspire the everyday |
| 0:30.4 | secret of truth. |
| 0:32.5 | Last year, 2020 was our first season, and it was a great success. |
| 0:36.3 | We produced 22 episodes, two of them per month, |
| 0:38.3 | with the help of the Y-Religion team of professors |
| 0:41.3 | and students here at BYU. |
| 0:43.3 | And thanks to you, we've had hundreds and thousands of downloads, |
| 0:46.3 | most of them in the US, but internationally also in over 75 different countries, |
| 0:52.3 | including Tanzania and Lichtenstein. |
| 0:56.0 | And we're excited to continue this in the year 2021 at the start of our second season. |
| 1:01.0 | We've got great episodes already recorded and in the queue, including doctrinal ones like |
| 1:06.0 | Joseph Smith's growing understanding of the eternal family, how we teach children to believe in Christ, |
| 1:12.7 | historical episodes such as archaeological insights from New Testament Galilee, |
| 1:17.8 | and the Joseph Smith papers that cover the pivotal year 1842. |
| 1:22.2 | A fascinating episode will be on the history of the changing image of the church in the American mind from the |
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