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English
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Sidney Rigdon : A Quest for Religious Power
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McMinnville, OR
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Linfield College
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41
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Honors thesis
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Davies discusses Sidney Rigdon, trusted counselor and close confidante of Joseph Smith. A natural leader, he shaped and created doctrine in the early LDS Church. The author posits that Rigdon's 1844 bid to succeed the late Smith as Prophet "caused him to become a forgotten and misunderstood religious influence." [p.2] This paper covers Rigdon's early life, his conversion to Mormonism, his influence on doctrine, and his life after Smith's death in 1844, in which he created a new church (Church of Jesus Christ of the Children of Zion) that quickly failed.