History of the Church

A tag Kyle uses for his study of LDS institutional history. It surfaces on Saints — No Unhallowed Hand, the second volume of the Church’s official narrative history, which he read in 2021 and tagged #Faith History of the Church Family History. In Kyle’s reading the interest is less in the events of the pioneer trek than in the interior problem of building an institution out of fallible people — Brigham Young’s fear that prosperity, not persecution, would ruin the Saints; the candid admission that “a prophet… may be fallible” while “the work… emanated from God”; Wilford Woodruff’s Manifesto and his theology of revelation; and the governance mechanics of the Quorum of the Twelve acting “unanimously or not at all.” History-of-the-church, for Kyle, is a case study in Institution Building, Stewardship, and Living Revelation.

Where this appears

• Saints — No Unhallowed Hand — the page is tagged History of the Church; Kyle’s highlights treat the volume as a study of how a durable institution is built from imperfect leaders, with threads on fallibility, prosperity-as-threat, and revelatory authority.