Item Detail
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6073
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25
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4
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English
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Doctrinal Development of the Church during the Nauvoo Sojourn 1839-1846
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1975
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15
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435-46
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"Those familiar with the history of the rise and expansion of the latter-day restoration movement are aware that Joseph Smith's life from the early 1820s until the settlement at Nauvoo was characterized by frequent movings, economic disasters, mob violence, and in 1838-1839, the expulsion of most of the members of the Church from Missouri. The five year period during which Joseph Smith resided at Nauvoo was different. It is true that on three different occasions attempts were made either to kidnap and transport him to Missouri, or to have him legally extradited to stand trial on one or more charges of violating Missouri laws. However, these attempts were disposed of through legal channels, proving more troublesome than dangerous. In addition, at Nauvoo threats of vexatious lawsuits or conspiracies had forced him to remain aloof from the Saints and curtail his public appearances for short periods of time until the threats had passed, but for the most part of a year or two at Nauvoo Joseph Smith experienced a greater freedom than he had known for the previous ten years. He was nearly always able to walk the streets of the city, night or day, to drive into the country, or to visit distant cities or branches of the Church, confident that his safety was assured. One reason for this was his awareness that Nauvoo, the largest city in Illinois, was filled with thousands of loyal Latter-day Saints who would have risked their lives if need be to protect him. Among these were hundreds of courageous men who would leave their work at a moment's notice to defend him or to travel with him as body guards." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Doctrine and the Temple in Nauvoo
Doctrine : Meaning, Source, History, and Doctrine
Du Secret Dans Le Mormonisme
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
Embodiment in Mormon Thought : Ambiguity, Contradiction and Consensus
Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
Joseph Smith and Modern Mormonism : Orthodoxy, Neoorthodoxy, Tension, and Tradition
Joseph Smith and the Plurality of Worlds Idea
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
People and Power of Nauvoo
The Awesome Responsibility: Joseph Smith III and the Nauvoo Experience
The Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
The King Follett Discourse : Joseph Smith's Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective
The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
'What Has Become of Our Fathers?' Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900