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Book Chapter

English

Launius, Roger D.;Sillito, John R.;McCormick, John S.;Thatcher, Linda

Henry W. Lawrence : A Life in Dissent

Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1994

220-40

Lawrence was not so much critical about Mormon theology as he was about the Church as an institution. He disagreed with the economic and political policies of Brigham Young, called for freedom of expression and rejected the concept of the gathering of Zion. His was an intellectual struggle and he eventually left the Church and joined the Godbeit movement in 1869.

Biographies, male, 19th century (articles or chapters)
Lawrence, Henry W.
Dissent and dissenters, 19th century
Schisms, Godbeites

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