[PDF] The Apostasy Of Amasa Mason Lyman eBook

Author : Albert Robison Lyman
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Amasa M. Lyman (1813-1877) joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in New Hampshire in 1832. This work covers his life from that time until his death in Fillmore, Utah, based on his journals.

Author : Todd Compton
Publisher :
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith. These were passionate relationships which had some longevity, except in instances in which Smith's first wife, Emma, learned of the secret union and quashed it. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life.

Author : Terryl L. Givens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199795002

GET BOOK

Feeding the Flock, the second volume of Terryl L. Givens's landmark study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, traces the essential contours of Mormon practice as it developed from Joseph Smith to the present. Despite the stigmatizing fascination with its social innovations (polygamy, communalism), its stark supernaturalism (angels, gold plates, and seer stones), and its most esoteric aspects (a New World Garden of Eden, sacred undergarments), as well as its long-standing outlier status among American Protestants, Givens reminds us that Mormonism remains the most enduring-and thriving-product of the nineteenth-century's religious upheavals and innovations. Because Mormonism is founded on a radically unconventional cosmology, based on unusual doctrines of human nature, deity, and soteriology, a history of its development cannot use conventional theological categories. Givens has structured these volumes in a way that recognizes the implicit logic of Mormon thought. The first book, Wrestling the Angel, centered on the theoretical foundations of Mormon thought and doctrine regarding God, humans, and salvation. Feeding the Flock considers Mormon practice, the authority of the institution of the church and its priesthood, forms of worship, and the function and nature of spiritual gifts in the church's history, revealing that Mormonism is still a tradition very much in the process of formation. At once original and provocative, engaging and learned, Givens offers the most sustained account of Mormon thought and practice yet written.