Book Description
The ideal introduction to what many historians consider the most innovative and successful religion to emerge during the spiritual ferment of antebellum America.
Author : Eric Alden Eliason
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252069123
The ideal introduction to what many historians consider the most innovative and successful religion to emerge during the spiritual ferment of antebellum America.
Author : Andrew Jackson
Publisher : Kudu Publishing Services
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 098492941X
In this timely book, the author uncovers the history, teachings and practices of the Latter-day Saints, compares them to evangelical Christian beliefs and challenges former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney to be open and transparent about his beliefs and its implications if he is elected president.
Author : Thomas G. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252065781
Author : Stephen H. Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199316813
A non-Mormon theologian explains how Mormonism is a branch of the Christian family tree that extends well beyond what most Christians have ever imagined.
Author : Thomas W. Simpson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469628643
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.
Author : Isaiah Bennett
Publisher : Catholic Answers
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781888992069
Inside Mormonism: What Mormons Really Believe offers an unprecedented look at the Mormon religion. It is the first book offering an in-depth and objective critique of Mormonism from a Catholic perspective. Isaiah Bennett conducts a thorough, frank, and charitable investigation of Mormonism, its history and the doctrines its leaders don't want told to the public. He highlights the religion's contradictory doctrines and explains how it "packages" itself to appear Christian. Isaiah Bennett is a former Catholic priest who converted to Mormonism and then reconverted to Catholicism once he discovered the errors and contradictions in Mormonism. Now he is dedicated to defending the Catholic faith and explaining the truth about Mormonism so other Catholics won't make the mistake he made.
Author : Reid Neilson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0195384032
Reid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public relations efforts, and marked the dramatic reengagement of the LDS Church with the outside, non-Mormon world after decades of isolation in America's Great Basin desert.
Author : D. Michael Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 9781560850892
In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in understanding how Mormons may have interpreted developments. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet.
Author : Thelma Geer
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080248137X
Raised in the Mormon church, she dreamed of becoming a 'heavenly queen.' A personal account of one woman's Mormon heritage and her conversion to the Christian faith. Examines several important tenets of the Mormon faith.
Author : Terryl Givens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190885084
"Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is America's most successful--and most misunderstood--home grown religion. Avoiding the textbook, narrative approach of most introductions, this volume instead poses well over a hundred commonly asked questions--and some not so common!--and provides thoughtful, short essays in response. The question and answer format means enhanced readability; perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. General topics include theology, culture, history, scripture, and practice. Questions range from the straightforward ("What circumstances gave rise to Mormonism?"), to the controversial ("Why do Mormons Accept the Book of Abraham as scripture if Egyptologists have discredited it?") to the exotic ("What is Kolob?"; "Is the Garden of Eden in Missouri?")"--