book
Pearl of Great Price
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Pearl of Great Price. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2013.
Why this matters here
Joseph Smith—History in the Pearl of Great Price narrates the first-vision sequence as canonical premise: neighboring Protestant common sense is left behind once revelation is received as implication. When Interpretation No Longer Matters reads that text as the door that opens only inward—evaluation after the premise, not before it. The scripture supplies the revelatory frame; the book asks what public interpretation can still do once a community’s starting point is no longer shared.
