Item Detail
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26793
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Journal Article
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English
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Park, Benjamin E.
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(Re)Interpreting Early Mormon Thought : Synthesizing Joseph Smith's Theology and the Process of Religion Formation
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2012
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45
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2
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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2012
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59-88
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Nine months after Joseph Smith and his brother were assassinated by an angry mob in June 1844, Parley P. Pratt published a proclamation addressed to the Church's large and dispersed membership to assure them that all was well. Pratt's metaphor of organizing chaotic matter is a potent symbol for tracing the process of religious formation and succession as a whole as well as an astute assessment of Joseph Smith's legacy. Among other things Park shares that the progression of an intellectual movement always includes a gap between founder and disciple, and a pure continuity in worldview is impossible when perpetuating a philosophical or theological system--even from a systematic thinker like Kant.
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"My Principality on Earth Began" : Millennialism and the Celestial Kingdom in the Development of Mormon Doctrine
Debating Succession, March 1846 : John E. Page, Orson Hyde, and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith's Legacy
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity