by The Poster Formerly Known as Craig Olson <craig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 11, 2008 at 09:52 PM
David / Amicus wrote:
> In the D&C which sections are the Doctrine and which are the Covenants?
In practice, the answer is all have both. The historical answer is
different.
> When the Book of Commandments was revised how did the new and improved
> version become known as the D&C? Why the name change?
The big difference what the inclusion of the Lectures on Faith at the
start of the new book. In essence, the Lectures were the Doctrine, the
Sections were the Covenants (a slightly more accurate term than
Commandments).
A couple of editions later [someone might bother to look up when], the
Lectures on Faith were removed, making the contents of the book more
just the "C" part than the "D" part. But the name had stuck by then, and
it has stayed the same ever since.
Craig
