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33048
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9
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English
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The Letter and the Spirit: The Lord's Supper and Set Forms in Two Restoration Churches
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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Spring/Summer 2023
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43
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1
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218-231
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"Reflecting broader trends in American religious practice, Joseph Smith Jr.’s early followers had an aversion to set liturgical forms. When it came to worship, they prioritized the spirit, not the letter, of the law. By the 1860s, a diversity of practices characterized the administration of the Lord’s Supper in the two largest wings of the Restoration movement: the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Midwestern Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This paper presents a comparative analysis of three sacrament practices that underwent formalization in the two churches during the second half of the nineteenth century: the delivery of the sacrament blessings, the prayer posture of the administrator, and the position of the congregation during the blessing. The debate over these practices provides a window into the relative freedom that existed ritually among Smith Jr.’s early followers, the impulse to standardize the sacrament in both churches following his death, and the role played (or not played) by the Doctrine and Covenants in the formalization process. Sacrament formalization in the Restoration movement also illuminates broader trends among many American Protestants who, similarly in the second half of the nineteenth century, began to question received assumptions regarding extemporaneous worship." [Author]
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