Church History
Doctrine and Covenants 20–22


Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources: Doctrine and Covenants 20–22, Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources (2025)

Doctrine and Covenants 20–22, Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources

Doctrine and Covenants 20–22

Furnished interior of a log home

Interior of the reconstructed Peter and Mary Whitmer home in Fayette, New York, USA. The Church was organized in the Whitmer home on April 6, 1830.

Historical Background

A Day for the Eternities

“There are moments in every person’s life that change them forever. This was mine.”

23:9

Revelations in Context

Essays on the background of each revelation

“Build Up My Church”

D&C 18, 20, 21, 22

Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days

Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations

Volume 1, Chapter 8

The Rise of the Church of Christ

People

Biographical facts and historical images of individuals associated with the revelations

Places

Maps and information about places associated with the revelations from The Joseph Smith Papers, Historic Sites, and other helpful sources

Events

Timeline placing each revelation in the context of key events in the Church’s first century

View the chronology

Topics

Essays on subjects related to the revelations

Common Consent

Founding Meeting of the Church of Christ

Printing and Publishing the Book of Mormon

Religious Beliefs in Joseph Smith’s Day

Sources

Historical background and the earliest version of each section of the Doctrine and Covenants, as published in The Joseph Smith Papers and the Church History Library catalog

Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830 [D&C 20]

Revelation, 6 April 1830 [D&C 21]

Revelation, 16 April 1830 [D&C 22]