3795

Journal Article

English

Dunn, Scott C., Vogel, Dan

'The Tongue of Angels' : Glossolalia among Mormonism's Founders

Journal of Mormon History

Fall 1993

19

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

1993

1-34

The rise and decline of speaking in tongues in the Church is discussed. Although Lee Copeland (Dialogue, Spring 1991) traced the origin of glossolalia to Sidney Rigson and the Ohio converts, these authors dated the origin to New York prior to contact with Rigdon. They also found, in contradiction to Copeland's research, that official discouragement and redefinition of the practice did not begin until 1839 in Nauvoo. At that time, Joseph Smith taught that the practice should be limited to speaking a foreign language without any prior training. By the turn of the century, the practice of glossolalia in the Church only occurred very infrequently and is absent from contemporary Mormonism. Similarities between the Mormon practice of the gift of tongues and the exercise of the gift by some 19th-century evangelicals is described.

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