12969

Dissertation

English

Ehat, Andrew F.

Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question

Brigham Young University

1982

189

Master's thesis

The murder of Joseph Smith in June 1844 created a complex succession problem for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The immediate question, however, was whether the Quorum of Twelve Apostles should lead the Church or whether Sidney Rigdon, counselor in the First Presidency, should alone lead. On 8 August 1844 the Church in Nauvoo unanimously chose to follow Brigham Young and the Twelve. They were sustained in large part because they constituted the priesthood quorum Joseph Smith designated to be the stewards of his temple revelations, should anything happen to him. The revelations included the higher priesthood ordinances of the temple: the endowment, eternal marriage, plural marriage and the fulness of the priesthood. The apostles, however, did not feel that the unique position qualifying them for immediate leadership allowed them to disregard Joseph Smith's intention that his eleven-year-old son, Joseph Smith III, should eventually be successor. Nevertheless, the interim leadership of the apostles became permanent when Joseph Smith III rejected the efficacy of the temple revelations received by his father. [From the author]

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Smith, Joseph, Jr., teachings
Succession, LDS Presidency
Temple ritual

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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Uniformity So Complete" : Early Mormon Angelology
"How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth" : Zebedee Coltrin's Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances
"I Roll the Burthen and Responsibility of Leading This Church Off from My Shoulders on to Yours" : The 1844/1845 Declaration of the Quorum of the Twelve Regarding Apostolic Succession
"There's the Boy I Can Trust" : Dennison Lott Harris' First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smith's "Last Charge" to the Twelve Apostles
'Joseph's Measures' : The Continuation of Esoterica by Schismatic Members of the Council of Fifty
'The Fulness of the Priesthood' : The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
'What Has Become of Our Fathers?' Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A History of Dialogue, Part Three : 'Coming of Age' in Utah, 1982-1987
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Conflict in the Camps of Israel : The 1853 Cutlerite Schism
Debating Succession, March 1846 : John E. Page, Orson Hyde, and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith's Legacy
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
Emma Hale Smith and the Polygamy Question
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Encouraging Joseph Smith to Practice Plural Marriage : The Accounts of the Angel with a Drawn Sword
Family Ties : Belief and Practice in Nauvoo
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith's Personal Polygamy
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph Smith, Jr., and 'The Notorious Case of Aaron Lyon' : Evidence of Earlier Doctrinal Development of Salvation for the Dead and a Trigger for the Practice of Polygamy
Joseph Smith, Polygamy, and the Levirate Widow
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Joseph, Brigham and the Twelve : A Succession of Continuity
Journal of Thomas Bullock
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Mormontown : Collective Memories of a Cutlerite Colony in Iowa
Non-Mormon Views of the Martyrdom : A Look at Some Early Published Accounts
Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Polygamy among James Strang and His Followers
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Seniority in the Twelve : The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Stretching to Find the Negative: Gary Bergera's Review of Joseph Smith's Polygamy : History and Theology
The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
The Ecclesiastical Position of Women in Two Mormon Trajectories
The Emma Smith Lore Reconsidered
The Fiery Darts of the Adversary : An Interpretation of Early Cutlerism
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Scattered Saints of Southwestern Iowa Cutlerite-Josephite Conflict and Rivalry, 1855-1865
The Significance of Nauvoo for Latter-day Saints
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912

The Wives of the Patriarchs
Transplanted to Zion : The Impact of British Latter-day Saint Immigration upon Nauvoo
William Phelps's Paracletes, An Early Witness to Smith's Divine Anthropology
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900