Author : Irene M. Bates,E. Gary Smith
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252071158
Lost Legacy by Irene M. Bates,E. Gary Smith Pdf
Joseph Smith's father, Joseph Smith Sr., first occupied the hereditary office of Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thereafter, it became a focal point for struggle between those appointed and those born to leadership positions. The revised and supplemented new edition of Lost Legacy updates the award-winning history of the office. Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith chronicle the ongoing tensions around the existence of a Presiding Patriarch as a source of conflict between the Smith family and the rest of the leadership. Their narrative continues through the dawning realization that familial authority was incompatible with the LDS's structured leadership to the decision to abolish the office of Presiding Patriarch in 1979. This edition provides a new preface and chapter by E. Gary Smith. Book jacket.