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English
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"For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation" : Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead
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An Eye of Faith : Essays in Honor of Richard O. Cowan
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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113-137
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In 1838, Joseph Smith first hinted that the ordinances of the Gospel would be given by proxy to those who had died. Two years later, he instituted the practice of baptisms and confirmations for the dead. This chapter provides the historical background and development of these sacred ordinances.