Item Detail
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English
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The Aaronic Order : The Development of a Modern Mormon Sect
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 1979
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12
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57-71
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The Aaronic Order is a 400-member millenarian group founded by Maurice L. Glendenning in the early 1930s as the Mormon Church became increasingly oriented toward the middle classes. Many members believe they are lineal descendants of Aaron or Levi of the Old Testament and that they are to perform special religious functions before the second coming of Jesus Christ, which they claim will occur before the year 2000. The order consists of branches in a suburb of Salt Lake City, a congregation in Springville, the Eskdale commune in western Millard County, and a cooperative community called Partoun in western Juab county. By 1975, ideological differences between fundamentalist Protestantism and the Aaronic order led to the expulsion of members thought to be leaning excessively toward Protestantism. This in turn led to a schism in which 25 other members left the order.
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Denominations that Base their Beliefs on the Teachings of Joseph Smith
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Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
The Levites of Utah : The Development of and Conversion to a Small Millenarian Sect
The Mormon Church : Its Middle Class Propensities
The Mormon Establishment
The True Church of God (With His Levites)