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Allen, C. Leonard;Hughes, Richard T.

Discovering Our Roots : The Ancestry of Churches of Christ

Abilene, Tex.

Christian University Press

1988

Early Mormons believed that their religion would break the chains of the apostasy and restore God's primitive church to the earth. Allen and Hughes thus places Mormonism in the context of popular American 19th Century restoration sentiment.

Social and cultural history, American setting
Social and cultural history, 19th century
Christian primitivism, American setting

Early Mormonism and the Re-enchantment of Antebellum Historical Thought
In Pursuit of the True Church : The Attraction of Restorationism on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier : Sidney Rigdon, the Disciples of Christ, and the Mormons