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English
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Richard Price : Leading Publicist of the Reorganized Church's Schismatics
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Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
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Urbana, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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319-42
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Since the late 1950s, the Reorganized Church has been moving from its traditional position as a sect that considered itself the one true church of Jesus Christ to a denomination that considers itself merely one of many Christian churches, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. ... This transition prompted a backlash in the Reorganized Church that threatened to rip the institution apart. The new synthesis, embraced by the organization's leadership and many of its members, found opposition from a sizable minority of more traditional members who viewed it as an apostasy. The leading strategist and publicist of Reorganization fundamentalism, as the dissenting movement is called, has been Richard Price, a long-time loyal member of the priesthood. [Author]