Item Detail
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8621
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31
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10
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English
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William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1982
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22
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47-72
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"William Law, a member of the First Presidency of the LDS Church in Nauvoo, Illinois, became an apostate in 1844, shortly before Joseph Smith was murdered at Carthage. According to his own statements and actions, William Law had developed a genuine commitment to Mormonism before becoming a schismatic. However, by the spring of 1843 his commitment began to waver, and by early 1844 he had concluded that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet. Some crucial comments regarding his apostasy were made in moments of tremendous fear and anger; others were offered after many years of reflection. This paper will attempt to identify the fundamental causes of William Law's apostasy." [Publisher's abstract]
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All, Now, and Yet : Revelation and the Restoration Churches' Response to the Social Changes of the Twentieth Century
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Family Ties : Belief and Practice in Nauvoo
Hyrum Smith : A Life of Integrity
'I'd Rather Have Some Roasting Ears' : The Peregrinations of Geroge Armstrong Hicks
John Taylor's June 27, 1854, Account of the Martyrdom
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Nauvoo from a Non-Mormon Perspective
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding
Road to Martyrdom : Joseph Smith's Last Legal Cases
Sarah M. Pratt : The Shaping of an Apostate
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 15: 16 May-28 June 1844
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 7 : September 1839–January 1841
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The Murders in Carthage : Non-Mormon Reports of the Assassination of the Smith Brothers
William Law's Diary and the Perils of Suspect Sources -
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
'A More Virtuous Man Never Existed on the Footstool of the Great Jehovah' : George Miller on Joseph Smith
'Brother Joseph Is Truly a Wonderful Man, He Is All We Could Wish a Prophet to Be' : Pre-1844 Letters of William Law
Civil Marriage in Nauvoo and Some Outlying Areas (1839-1845)
Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom : A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The True Origin of Mormon Polygamy
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph