Item Detail
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27822
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English
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The Church and the Kingdom of God : Ecclesiastical Interpretations of the Council of Fifty
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Journal of Mormon History
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April 2017
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43
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2
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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100-130
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The dominant perspective perpetuated by the Quorum of the Twelve was that the Council was distinct from the Church and dealt only with political matters. Others argued for an ecclesiastical interpretation. They perceived the Council as the highest echelon of the Church's hierarchy specially tasked with political matters.
This article documents this second strain of interpretations, tracing its variants in and its uses by several expressions of postmartyrdom Mormonism. Although this article includes no accusation of deliberate misidentifying or misremembering the Council's purpose, it argues that publicizing one's interpretation of the Council promoted sectarian agendas. The Council's secrecy allowed individual claims about the group to go unchallenged at the same time that the events alleged to have occurred in the Council took on added significance in a Mormonism so recently stripped of its prophet. [From the text]
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Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition
Strangite Masonry and the Order of Illuminati
Strangite Scripture
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
"With Full Authority to Build Up the Kingdom of God on Earth" : Lyman Wight on the Council of Fifty