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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190699116

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The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the most successful new religion of modern times. The scores of documents transcribed and annotated in this book include family histories, journal entries, letters, affidavits, reminiscences, interviews, newspaper articles, and book extracts, as well as revelations dictated in the name of God. From these texts emerges the captivating story of what happened (and what was believed or rumored to have happened) between September 1823-when the seventeen-year-old farm boy Joseph Smith announced that an angel of God had directed him to an ancient book inscribed on gold plates-and March 1830, when the Book of Mormon was first published. By compiling for the first time a substantial collection of both first- and secondhand accounts relevant to the inception of the divine revelation-or clever fraud-that launched a new world religion, A Documentary History makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing field of Mormon Studies.

A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon

Author : Larry E. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190699124

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The Mormon Church and Blacks

Author : Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252097843

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The Mormon Church and Blacks by Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood. This departure from past practice focused new attention on Brigham Young's decision to abandon Joseph Smith's more inclusive original teachings. The Mormon Church and Blacks presents thirty official or authoritative Church statements on the status of African Americans in the Mormon Church. Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst comment on the individual documents, analyzing how they reflected uniquely Mormon characteristics and contextualizing each within the larger scope of the history of race and religion in the United States. Their analyses consider how lifting the ban shifted the status of African Americans within Mormonism, including the fact that African Americans, once denied access to certain temple rituals considered essential for Mormon salvation, could finally be considered full-fledged Latter-day Saints in both this world and the next. Throughout, Harris and Bringhurst offer an informed view of behind-the-scenes Church politicking before and after the ban. The result is an essential resource for experts and laymen alike on a much-misunderstood aspect of Mormon history and belief.

Mormon Thunder

Author : Gene A. Sessions
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mormon Thunder by Gene A. Sessions Pdf

Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.” It was “an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.” Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant’s ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and ’50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant’s voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of “Mormon Thunder” rolls again in “a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.”

The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000

Author : Devery S. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1560852119

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An edited collection of documents on the the history and doctrines surrounding Mormon temples. Includes excerpts from leaders' diaries, minutes of Quorum of the Twelve meetings, pastoral letters, sermons, and official publications.

The Mormon Church and Blacks

Author : Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252081218

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The Mormon Church and Blacks by Matthew L Harris,Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood. This departure from past practice focused new attention on Brigham Young's decision to abandon Joseph Smith's more inclusive original teachings. The Mormon Church and Blacks presents thirty official or authoritative Church statements on the status of African Americans in the Mormon Church. Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst comment on the individual documents, analyzing how they reflected uniquely Mormon characteristics and contextualizing each within the larger scope of the history of race and religion in the United States. Their analyses consider how lifting the ban shifted the status of African Americans within Mormonism, including the fact that African Americans, once denied access to certain temple rituals considered essential for Mormon salvation, could finally be considered full-fledged Latter-day Saints in both this world and the next. Throughout, Harris and Bringhurst offer an informed view of behind-the-scenes Church politicking before and after the ban. The result is an essential resource for experts and laymen alike on a much-misunderstood aspect of Mormon history and belief.

Cultures In Conflict

Author : John Hallwas,Roger Launius
Publisher : Utah State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0874212723

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Cultures In Conflict by John Hallwas,Roger Launius Pdf

Cultures in Conflict offers students of history an invaluable source of documents regarding the history of the Mormon presence in Illinois. Few local histories are so academically sound. —Illinois Times Hallwas and Launius have compiled and written the most balanced and thorough account yet of the events and circumstances that led to the forced Mormon exodus from Nauvoo following the mini civil war that erupted in Illinois during the 1849s

Under the Banner of Heaven

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998

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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Early Mormon Documents

Author : Dan Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117949045

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Early Mormon Documents by Dan Vogel Pdf

In Volume Five: INTERVIEWS WITH BOOK OF MORMON WITNESS DAVID WHITMER, CONDUCTED BY: Joseph F. Smith & Orson Pratt William H. Kelley & George A. Blakeslee George Q. Cannon Edmund C. Briggs & Rudolph Etzenhouser Joseph Smith III Zenas H. Gurley James Henry Moyle Thomas W. Smith Nathan Tanner, Jr. Edward Stevenson and the Chicago Times, Kansas City Journal, Omaha Herald, and St. Louis Republican, among others. STATEMENTS, TESTIMONIES, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES BY: Hiram Page John Whitmer William E. McClellin Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery Diedrich Willers Lucius Fenn Ezra Booth Parley P. Pratt Sidney Rigdon J. L. Traughber and minutes of meetings, ordination certificates, maps, and a chronology of the Joseph Smith family, 1771-1831.

A Documentary History of Religion in America

Author : Edwin Scott Gaustad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D01569341D

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The Council of Fifty

Author : Klaus J. Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1560852240

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The Council of Fifty by Klaus J. Hansen Pdf

THE COUNCIL OF FIFTY: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY Jedediah S. Rogers, editor Documentary history 400 pp. 978-1-56085-224-7. hardback. $49.95.

Trail of Hope

Author : William W. Slaughter,Michael Landon
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1590388771

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Trail of Hope by William W. Slaughter,Michael Landon Pdf

Beginning with their expulsion from Nauvoo in 1846 and for the succeeding twenty-two years, the migration of Mormon pioneerssome 70,000 of themwas a compelling saga of the settlement of the American West. Mostly poor, they traveled on ships, canal

Mormon Resistance

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Ann Woodbury Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803273576

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Mormon Resistance by LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Ann Woodbury Hafen Pdf

In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied by a twenty-five-hundred-member troop under the leadership of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. The secrecy, the size of the military force, and past experiences caused the Mormons to mistakenly believe they were about to be invaded by the federal government. Utah?s territorial militia, the Nauvoo Legion, readied itself against the impending invasion until disagreement and disapproval in Washington finally led to successful diplomacy and a reluctant peace. LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen have brought together the principal official documents pertaining to these singular and nearly tragic events as well as excerpts from the diaries and journals of the central figures, speeches given in Congress and in Utah, and pertinent correspondence. ø

Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845

Author : Devery S. Anderson,Gary James Bergera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1560851864

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Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845 by Devery S. Anderson,Gary James Bergera Pdf

"The Quorum of Anointed (also known as the Holy Order) was the secret, elite group which founding prophet Joseph Smith organized and to which he revealed for the first time the ordinances of washing and anointing, the endowment, and the "fullness of the priesthood"-the foundation of modern LDS temple ritual...This history also adds valuable biographical information for any number of important Navoo Mormons, from Joseph and Brigham to many less prominent but equally intriguing figures...." -- P. ix.

The Mormon Murders

Author : Steven Naifeh,Gregory White Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250087423

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The Mormon Murders by Steven Naifeh,Gregory White Smith Pdf

On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of church-going family man, Mark Hoffman. Incredibly, he survived. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hoffman that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged... It was the appearance of an alleged historic document that challenged the very bedrock of Mormon teaching, questioned the legitimacy of its founder, and threatened to disillusion millions of its faithful-unless the Mormon hierarchy buried the evidence.