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English
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Revelation, Scripture, and Authority in the Latter-day Saint Diaspora, 1840-1870
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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39-61
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"Joseph Smith Jr. changed the religious landscape for converts to his new denomination, reinvoking the status and standing of a Biblical prophet. By inadvertently creating twin expectations of both a charismatic/prophetic expectation of new revelation and a corporate/priestly structure of order and organization, he also crafted deep and long-lasting social traditions. His death in 1844 left open a question about the role of a prophet as the church continued. Though a large proportion of the church accepted the priestly/corporate leadership..., claimants to prophetic/charismatic station flourished... Accepting Mormonism but rejecting Utah's branch, new converts to the other branches of Mormonism began seeking ways to maintain but restrain prophetic leadership and to foster both religious and social stability. Looking for alternatives to an independent and unchallengeable prophet, scripture became a common denominator on which believers could agree to re-corporate a socially stable church. In short, through the Mormon diaspora scripture in the Latter Day Saint tradition became canonical but not fixed, and all the sects claiming Joseph Smith Jr. as a founder have had to come to grips with the place of modern revelation and its relationship to scripture within the church. While each emerging tradition had to settle the question of how an open canon would be supplemented, the Latter Day Saint scriptural canon itself largely endures." [Author]
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Young, Brigham
Leadership
Smith, Joseph, Jr., prophecies
Wight, Lyman
Schisms, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Wightites)
Schisms, Church of Christ (Brewsterites)
Scriptures
Priesthood
Doctrinal history, prophets
Strang, James J.
Smith, Joseph, Jr., teachings
Scriptures, use and influence
Smith, Joseph, Jr., revelations
Schisms, Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
Schisms, Church of Christ (Rigdonites)
Schisms
Charisma
Brewster, James Colin
Bishop, Francis Gladden
Smith, Joseph, Jr., leadership
Smith, Joseph, Jr., charisma
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Rigdon, Sidney -
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