Item Detail
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English
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Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1978
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19
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79-105
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"This binding process in religion has often been achieved through secret as well as public rites. Latter-day Saints scholar Hugh Nibley has devoted much research to ancient ordinances that were "hidden from the world" and were intended to be experienced in sacred seclusion. The importance of such study lies in the fact that within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are certain nonpublic ordinances that Mormon leaders have repeatedly affirmed are divine restorations of ancient ordinances of God. LDS prophets have identified these as "temple ordinances," known as washing, anointing, endowment, sealing, and second anointing. Like other temple practices, the existence of a special "prayer circle" ceremony has been referred to in official publications of the LDS Church. Historical parallels to these rights are the strength of the firm LDS position that Mormonism is not a new creation but instead in its most essential features is a restoration of those sacred doctrines and practices revealed by God to man from the beginning. In Mormonism the reception of divine revelation is an active, responsive process, rather than a passive operation. If Joseph Smith had any knowledge of these earlier practices of prayer, then that partial understanding served as an incentive for him to seek divine and more complete instruction." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A Gift Given, A Gift Taken : Washing, Anointing, and Blessing the Sick among Mormon Women
A Gift Given, A Gift Taken : Washing, Anointing, and Blessing the Sick Among Mormon Women
A Mormon Midrash? : LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered
Andrew Hunter Scott : Builder in the Kingdom
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Conflict in the Camps of Israel : The 1853 Cutlerite Schism
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Emma Hale Smith and the Polygamy Question
Exploring Mormon Thought: The Problems of Theism and the Love of God, Volume 2
Franklin D. Richards and the British Mission
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
Glowing Stones in Ancient and Medieval Lore
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
Injudicious Mormon Banker : The Life of B. H. Schettler and the Collapse of His Private Bank
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde : Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Joseph, Brigham and the Twelve : A Succession of Continuity
'Joseph's Measures' : The Continuation of Esoterica by Schismatic Members of the Council of Fifty
Joseph Smith III's 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
Joseph Smith's 1891 Millennial Prophecy : The Quest for Apocalyptic Deliverance
Joseph Smith's Ambiguous Legacy : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism Within Mormonism after 1844
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Journal of Thomas Bullock
Life in Nauvoo, June 1844 : Vilate Kimball's Martyrdom Letters
Luana Hart Beebe (1814-1897) : A Biographical Sketch of a Remarkable Early Latter-day Saint
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Mormon Bibliography 1978
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
New Light on the Sun : Emma Smith and the New York Sun Letter
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
One Man's Nauvoo : William Clayton's Experience in Mormon Illinois
On the Problem and Promise of Alex Caldiero’s Sonosophy : Doing Dialogical Coperformative Ethnography; Or, Enter the Poetarium
Ordering Antinomy : An Analysis of Early Mormonism's Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship
Prayer Circle
Put On Your Strength, O Daughters of Zion': Claiming Priesthood and Knowing the Mother
Raising The Dead, Mormons, Evangelicals, and Miracles in America
Sarah M. Pratt : The Shaping of an Apostate
"Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet" : The Rise and Fall of Mormon Ritual Cursing
'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry' : The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books : Out of Darkness unto Light
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
The Ecclesiastical Position of Women in Two Mormon Trajectories
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
'The Fulness of the Priesthood' : The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
The Iowa Journal of Lorenzo Snow
The Journey West : The Mormon Pioneer Journals of Horace K. Whitney with Insights by Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Sacred Departments for Temple Work in Nauvoo : The Assembly Room and the Council Chamber
The Scattered Saints of Southwestern Iowa Cutlerite-Josephite Conflict and Rivalry, 1855-1865
The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
The Spirit of Elijah
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
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A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
Between Two Worlds : The Origins of Shaker Celibacy, Oneida Community Complex Marriage, and Mormon Polygamy
Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage : A Discussion
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Mormonism and Masonry
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Orson Pratt--Early Mormon Leader
Plural Marriage
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Spencer W. Kimball : Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The House of the Lord : A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Egyptian Endowment
The President As Seen By His Secretary