Item Detail
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24093
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English
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Mormonism, Millenarianism, and Missouri
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The Missouri Mormon Experience
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Columbia, Mo.
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University of Missouri Press
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50-61
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"A more metaphorical understanding of the millennium was the dominant eschatological orientation of 1830s America. The prevailing view was that the religious revivals of the day would Christianize the world and usher in a millennium of religious harmony and piety. Mormons, however, were among a minority who did not share this opinion. Their view was that Christendom was spiritually bankrupt and the world firmly in the grip of sin. While they hoped that through the preaching of the gospel restored by Joseph Smith a righteous remnant would be gathered out of 'spiritual Babylon' before the end, the Saints' apocalyptic version of millennialism proclaimed that only an outpouring of divine judgment, culminating in Christ's personal return to earth, could comprehensively and permanently eliminate wickedness and establish the millennium." [p. 50-51]