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English
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Excommunication : Church Courts in Mormon History
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Sunstone
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July/August 1983
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8
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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24-29
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Bush compares the Church court system of the nineteenth century with its modern counterpart. He finds that, in general, church courts of the earlier century were used primarily as a last resort for those offenders who were rebellious and refused to repent. Modern courts, on the other hand, emphasize court action as a requirement of repentance. The author wonders if this isn't a turn to a kind of 'Old Testament' style of justice. Further, Bush believes that Church in the twentieth century is more and more concerned with behavior, rather than belief, and that excommunications have increased ten-fold as a result.
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"Does Not Purport to Comprehend All Matters of Church Government" : The LDS "General Handbook of Instructions", 1899—2006
“Hysteria Excommunicatus” : Loyalty Oaths, Excommunication, and the Forging of a Mormon Identity
Transgression in the LDS Community : The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith : Part 3 : Joseph F. Smith