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Journal Article

English

Stein, Stephen J.

Historical Reflections on Mormon Futures

Journal of Mormon History

Spring 2007

33

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Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2007

38-64

This article was originally a Tanner Lecture on Mormon views of historical and eschatological future. Eschatology is the study of the end of the world. Stein discusses "signs of the times" and the Second Coming. He contrasts Joseph Smith's views on the future with those of the Shakers, Millerites, Seventh Day Avendists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other groups with special focus on millenarianism. Stein concludes by pondering about the present-day Church and whether its members are too prosperous to be concerned with eschatology.

Comparative religion, Jehovah's Witnesses
Comparative religion, Shakers
Doctrinal history, millenarianism
Comparative religion, Seventh-day Adventist Church
Comparative religion, Millerites

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As a Thief in the Night : The Mormon Millennialist View
Discourses of Brigham Young : Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Mormon Doctrine
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Unto Every Nation : Gospel Light Reaches Every Land
Waiting for World's End : Diaries of Wilford Woodruff