Item Detail
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19538
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English
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Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2006
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39
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no.4
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58-67
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The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rejected many of Joseph Smith's later teachings such as baptism for the dead and celestial marriage. The RLDS Church underwent a reformation and it is not known as the Community of Christ. Within this church today "the character of Joseph Smith has become an embarrassment. He is often viewed as a skeleton in the closet." He is seen, not as a revered prophet, but as a "deeply flawed" man. Launius feels that no new biography of the prophet would serve the Community of Christ, but he would like to see a study of Joseph Smith's "place in the myth and memory of the Latter-day Saints."
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An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology
Coming of Age? The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1960s
Doctrinal Development of the Church during the Nauvoo Sojourn 1839-1846
History and Mission in Tension : A View From Both Sides
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Methods and Motives : Joseph Smith III's Opposition to Polygamy, 1860-90
Moderation as a Theological Principle in the Thought of Joseph Smith III
Mormon Religion in Nauvoo : Some Reflections
Neither Mormon nor Protestant? The Reorganized Church and the Challenge of Identity
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Politicking against Polygamy : Joseph Smith III, The Reorganized Church, and the Politics of the Antipolygamy Crusade, 1860-1890
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints : Moderate Mormonism
RLDS Views of Polygamy : Some Historiographical Notes
The Awesome Responsibility : Joseph Smith III and the Nauvoo Experience
The Changing RLDS Response to Mormon Polygamy : A Preliminary Analysis
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
The RLDS Church and the Decade of Decision
The Significance of Nauvoo for Latter-day Saints