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English
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Matthew Philip Gill, Joseph Smith, and the Dynamics of Mormon Schism (chapter)
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Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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344-367
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"Matthew Philip Gill moves fluidly in the sacred world Joseph Smith created. His great skill is his ability to focus the charismatic impulses of the nineteenth century upon the problems of the twenty-first. His revival of Smith's ideals-- the gathering principle, abandoned by the LDS Church in the mid-twentieth century; the construction of a literal, millennial city of Zion in a real and physical sacred place; and the insistence upon a palpable sense of divinely ordained prophecy-- all revive the tangible millennialism of early Mormonism, an impulse simultaneously urgent and optimistic, and an energy absent in the LDS Church today. Just as early Mormons expected an impending second coming of Christ, so does Philip Gill, his father, declare 'We want to gang together as a large group and prepare ourselves for the second coming of our Saviour, which is imminent, which is just around the corner.' Gill offers his followers a world in which the sacred is tangible, in both space and time, and to them, British children of contemporary Mormonism, more so than the LDS Church. Gill uses these strategies not only to assert prophetic authority but to work out his own religious experience, to solve the problems facing contemporary Mormonism with the tools that the tradition gave him. In this way, then, his new religious movement is really not very new at all." [Author]
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Adam-ondi-Ahman
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