Item Detail
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29666
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English
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Mormonism
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World Religions and Their Missions
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New York
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Peter Lang Publishing
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215-264
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"The word of the Lord to the nascent Mormon community called for elders to evangelize everywhere they could during this period of rising tribulation. These nineteenth-century prophecies, what the Mormons called 'commandments' or 'revelations,' gave simple instructions: rally the righteous by proclaiming the Book of Mormon, by administering baptism, and by gathering converts to the city of the New Jerusalem in western Missouri. Where the elders met rejection, they were to cast the dust of that home or town from their feet in a special ritual designed to absolve them of any burden of guilt should apocalyptic devastation befall those who had rejected them." [From the text]