Item Detail
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4890
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Journal Article
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English
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Quinn, D. Michael
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The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1980
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20
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1980
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163-97
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"Many scholarly studies of the Council of Fifty have tended to distort insufficient evidence and sometimes to sensationalize their interpretations. This article's research into the documents and historical environment of the Council of Fifty requires a rewriting of these scholarly and highly popular interpretations rather than a rewriting of Mormon history in light of these previous interpretations of the Council of Fifty. The primary role of the Council of Fifty was to symbolize the other-worldly world order that would be established during the millennial reign. The secondarily role involved literal, practical functions. The author divides his study of the Council of Fifty into the following: establishment, names, purposes, activity, supervision, membership, officers, legacy." [Publisher's abstract]
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"I Roll the Burthen and Responsibility of Leading This Church Off from My Shoulders on to Yours" : The 1844/1845 Declaration of the Quorum of the Twelve Regarding Apostolic Succession
"The Church in the Days of Alpheus Cutler" : New Insights into the Nineteenth-Century Cutlerite Ecclesiology
"Vindicating the Right... of the Twelve" : Elias Adams's Letters Concerning Succession
'A Place Prepared' : Joseph, Brigham and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West
'It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth' : Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God
'Joseph's Measures' : The Continuation of Esoterica by Schismatic Members of the Council of Fifty
'Lawyers of Their Own to Defend Them':
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
American Indians and the Nauvoo-Era Council of Fifty
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
Benjamin Franklin Johnson in Nauvoo : Friend, Confidant, and Defender of the Prophet
Brigham Bicknell Young, Musical Christian Scientist
Brigham Young : American Moses
Conflict in the Camps of Israel : The 1853 Cutlerite Schism
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
Early Mormon Millenarianism : Another Look
Finalizing Plans for the Trek West : Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
From Pentecost to Administration : A Reappraisal of the History of the Hosanna Shout
Insights Into Mormon Record-Keeping Practices from the Council of Fifty Minutes
Introduction to the 1845-1846 Journal of Thomas Bullock
John E. Page : An Apostle of Uncertainty
Joseph Smith III's 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph, Brigham and the Twelve : A Succession of Continuity
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Lamanism, Lymanism, and Cornfields
Law and Order in Winter Quarters
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
Mormon History
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Non-Mormon Views of the Martyrdom : A Look at Some Early Published Accounts
None Can Deliver : Imagining Lamanites and Feeling Mormon, 1837-1847
Orson Pratt : Prolific Pamphleteer
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Refugees Meet : The Mormons and Indians in Iowa
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Sidney Rigdon : Post Nauvoo
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
The Bone in the Throat : Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage
The Campaign and the Kingdom : The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
The Church and the Kingdom of God : Ecclesiastical Interpretations of the Council of Fifty
The Concept of a "Rejected Gospel" in Mormon History, Part 2
The Constitution of the State of Deseret
The Council of Fifty Minutes and Latter Day Saint Studies on Succession
The Council of Fifty in Western History
The Fiery Darts of the Adversary : An Interpretation of Early Cutlerism
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Nauvoo Neighborhood : A Little Philadelphia or a Unique City Set Upon a Hill?
The Site of Mormon Political Theology
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Wasters and Destroyers : Community-Sponsored Predator Control in Early Utah Territory
The church family in nineteenth-century America : Mormonism and the public private divide
Thomas Bullock as an Early Mormon Historian
Transplanted to Zion : The Impact of British Latter-day Saint Immigration upon Nauvoo
Understanding the Council of Fifty and Its Minutes
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
[Review essay on George D. Smith, ed., An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton] -
Alpheus Cutler and the Church of Jesus Christ
An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, and Hyrum Smith, His Brother
Doctrines of the Kingdom
Foolsmate
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
I Knew the Prophets : An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Reporting Doctrinal Views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Joseph Smith : Prophet, Priest and King
Joseph Smith and World Government
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
One Man's Nauvoo : William Clayton's Experience in Mormon Illinois
Organizational Development and Social Origins of the Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : A Prosopographical Study
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
The Kingdom of God, the Council of Fifty and the State of Deseret