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The Case for Sidney Rigdon as Author of the Lectures on Faith
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2005
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31
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-41
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Reynolds gives the history of the Lectures on Faith and their debated role in LDS intellectual culture and then outlines the controversy, even among the leaders of the Church, over their authorship. He summarizes and analyzes the methodology and conclusions of previous authorship studies and then cites historical evidence in support of Sidney Rigdon's authorship. Reynolds then gives his own test of authorship which ultimately supports his Rigdon hypothesis. By identifying 38 rhetorical devices and distinctive phrases, which he names "Rigdonisms," in three long doctrinal essays written by Rigdon during the same period in which the Lectures on Faith were written, and comparing the frequency of those "Ridgonisms" in the Lectures on Faith and also in writings of Joseph Smith of the same period, Reynolds concludes with certainty that Sidney Rigdon wrote the Lectures on Faith. A discussion follows of Rigdon's distinctive teachings that occur in the Lectures as well as the unmistakable Protestantism of the period that is evident in the Lectures, pointing once again to Rigdon's role as author.
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