Item Detail
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31977
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2
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23
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English
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“I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man” : Eliza R. Snow's Challenge to Salvific Coverture
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Journal of Mormon History
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2021
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47
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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48-74
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"Eliza R. Snow repeatedly and consciously taught a certain type of soteriology, or doctrine of salvation. Compared to the teachings of other leaders that emphasized salvation through relationships, and that reinforced husbands’ responsibility for and authority over their wives, Snow stressed the responsibility of the individual woman in her own salvation. I argue that this type of soteriology contradicted a specific aspect of patriarchal thinking present in nineteenth-century Mormonism, an aspect that I refer to as salvific coverture, “salvific” meaning leading to salvation and “coverture” referring to a common law practice described below. I use this term to describe the tendency within Mormonism to believe that female salvation came through her husband to whom she was sealed, that husbands were salvifically responsible for their wife or wives, and/or that a woman could rely on her husband for salvation. Without critiquing the contemporaneous doctrine or practice of “celestial marriage,” Snow insisted that women retained salvific agency, and thereby both anticipated and shaped the future development of Mormon theology." [Author]
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