- Scot and Maurine Proctor
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Scot and Maurine Proctor are the founders of the Latter-day Saint oriented website Meridian Magazine. They have also issued a revised edition of Lucy Mack Smith's history of Joseph Smith; it has been criticized by scholars such as Janiece Johnson who criticized the book for merging various historic texts of the work and adding materials without any justification.[citation needed] It is the version cited by such scholars as Susan Easton Black and Craig J. Ostler[1] at least in some of their works however.[2] The Proctor's work is also among those cited in the bibliography to Scott R. Petersen's 2005 book Where Have All The Prophets Gone.[3]
Their work has been criticized as "unreliable" by Fred W. Nelson in an article in the FARMS Review.[4] Scholars such as Andrew H. Hedges though have been willing to quote from the Proctors work.[5] The Proctor's work The Gathering was sighted in the footnotes to Gregory A. Prince and William Robert Wright's book David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.[6]
The Proctors wrote The Gathering, Mormon Pioneers on the Trail to Zion. They have published a new edition of the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. The Proctors have also compiled a book Light from the Dust which presents photos of areas they believe are similar scenes to where the events of the Book of Mormon took place. For this book the Proctors did on site studies in Oman.[7]
The Proctors are the parents of eleven children in their combined families from prior marriages. They reside in Fairfax, Virginia.
The Proctors have produced a DVD entitled Gordon B. Hinckley - Temple Builder.[8]
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Maurine Proctor
Maurine Jensen Proctor received her bachelors degree from the University of Utah and her masters degree from Harvard University. She worked for the Chicago Sun-Times before she and her husband started their own magazine. She has also written a book entitled From Adams Rib to Women's Lib.[9]
Scot Proctor
Scot Facer Proctor is a professional photographer[10] who wrote Witness of Light which was a photographic book about Joseph Smith.[11] The LDS Church has included his photos in their publications at times.[12][13]
See also
Books by the Proctors
- Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt Revised and Enhanced Edition
- Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother[14]
- Gathering The Mormon Pioneers on the Trail to Zion
- Creating a New Millennium: The Latter-day Saints in the Coming Century. ISBN 1562362364 This is actually a collection of essays with the Proctors as editors. One of the essays, by Kathleen Slaugh Bahr and Cheri A. Loveless was referenced in Camille S. Williams' work in David L. Paulsen and Donald W. Musser's book Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies.[15]
- Light From the Dust: A Photographic Exploration into the Ancient World of The Book of Mormon[16] This was reviewed in a critical review by Fred W. Nelson.</ref>
Sources
- Mormon Literature Database entry on Meridian Magazine
- article that mentions Proctor's book
- article on vandalism of Meridian magazine site in the Deseret News, Nov. 13th, 2008
- Meridian page on the Proctors
- Family Leader bios on Proctors
- Huffington Post listing of campaign contributions by Maurine Proctor
- lds marriage network bio on Maurine Proctor
- library thing entry on Scot Proctor
- [2] article by Jeff Lindsay that mentions the Proctor's work.
- This site cites works by the Proctors
References
- ^ Ostler. "Joseph Smith" in Craig K. Manscill, Robert C. Freeman and Dennis Wright, ed., Presidents of the Church: The Life and Teachings of the Modern Prophets (Springville, Utah: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2008) p. 29
- ^ article by Black in Ensign March 2002, p. 12
- ^ Petersen. Where Have All The Prophets Gone. (Springville, Cedar Fort, Inc, 2005) p. 373
- ^ FARMS Reviews, Vol 9, Issue 1 (1997) p. 25-27
- ^ Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Col. 8, Issue 2 (1999) p. 14-23
- ^ p. 490 of the book, found through google books
- ^ article about various attempts to pinpoint where Nephi built his ship
- ^ article from Meridian about Proctors' DVD
- ^ [1]
- ^ blog that mentions Scot Proctor is a photographer
- ^ review of Witness of Light in Meridian
- ^ Liahona article mentioning that the background photo work was by Scot Proctor, sadly this link does not include the photo itself, only the attribution credits
- ^ Feb. 7, 2009 LDS Church News article with photo by Scot Proctor
- ^ Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
- ^ see note 95 on page 92
- ^ FARMS Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 1994, p. 146-150
External links
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