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32376
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2
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English
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The Passing of the Church : Forty Vairations on an Unpopular Theme
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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1976
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16
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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138-159
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"The purpose of this paper is to list briefly the principle arguments supporting the thesis that the Church founded by Jesus and the Apostles did not survive and was not expected to. We shall consider the fate of the Church under three heads : 1) the declarations of the early Christians concerning what was to befall it, 2) their strange behavior in the light of those declarations, 3) the affirmations and denials, doubts and misgivings of the church leaders of a later day. Our theme is the Passing of the Church, our variations, designated below by Roman numerals, are a number of striking and often neglected facets of church history." [Author]