Item Detail
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16997
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Book
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English
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Anderson, Devery S., Bergera, Gary James
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Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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2005
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[2006 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Documentary Editing]
"This is an important book, documenting a key chapter in Latter-day Saint history that few Mormons know about. The Quorum of Anointed (also known as the Holy Order) was the secret, elite group which founding prophet Joseph Smith organized and to which he revealed for the first time the ordinances of washing and anointing, the endowment, and the 'fulness of the priesthood'--the foundation of modern LDS temple ritual. This is the first full-length record of the quorum to appear in print and will be a key source for studying the development of LDS history and ritual. It sheds light on many aspects of Mormonism. For example, it provides background for an important chapter in the history of Mormon polygamy. The documents are also an important source for Mormon feminist writers, as Joseph Smith allowed women to enter this quroum and thus to participate in temple ritual, which in Old Testament times defined the essence of priesthood. The documents provide a striking first-hand picture of the contrast between the late Joseph Smith and early Brigham Young administrations, the first such succession in LDS history. This history also adds valuable biographical information for any number of important Nauvoo Mormons, from Joseph and Brigham to many less prominent but equally intriguing figures such as Emma Smith, Hyrum Smith, William Law, William Marks, Cornelius Lott, and Newel K. Whitney." (taken from foreword by Todd Compton) -
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"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
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
"Temple Pro Tempore" : The Salt Lake City Endowment
"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
"Why Then Introduce Them Into Our Inner Temple?" : The Masonic Influence on Mormon Denial of Priesthood Ordination to African American Men
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
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
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
God(s) as Character(s) in Joseph's Bible Stories : March 1830 to September 1830
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Joseph Smith's Ambiguous Legacy : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism Within Mormonism after 1844
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Keeping a Secret : Freemasonry, Polygamy, and the Nauvoo Relief Society, 1842-44
Luana Hart Beebe (1814-1897) : A Biographical Sketch of a Remarkable Early Latter-day Saint
Mormons and the Grand Jury in Hancock County, 1839-1845
Mormontown : Collective Memories of a Cutlerite Colony in Iowa
Ordering Antinomy : An Analysis of Early Mormonism's Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship
Setting the Record Straight : Brigham Young's Baptism Date
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
The Concept of a "Rejected Gospel" in Mormon History, Part 2
The Council of Fifty, Orson Hyde, and the “Last Charge”: A Re-evaluation
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Writings of Oliver H. Olney : Early Mormon Dissident; Would-be Reformer
Wightites in Wisconsin : The Formation of a Dissenting Latter Day Community (1842-1845)
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives