Standing apart :

Standing apart : Mormon historical consciousness and the concept of apostasy / edited by Miranda Wilcox, John D. Young. - 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustration, portraits.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy narrative / "Except among that portion of mankind": early Mormon conceptions of the apostasy / James Talmage, B.H. Roberts, and confessional history in a secular age / Narrating apostasy and the LDS quest for identity / Competing histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint tradition / Latter-day Saint perceptions of Jewish apostasy in the time of Jesus / Purity and parallels: constructing the apostasy narrative of early Christianity / Rereading the Council of Nicaea and its creed / Apostasy's ancestors: anti-Arian and anti-Mormon discourse in the struggle for Christianity / "Complexity and richness": reenvisioning the Middle Ages for Mormon historical narratives / King Ratbod's dilemma: apostasy and restoration in the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries / Covenantal pluralism in Mormonism and Islam: alternatives to the binary logic of apostasy / Long narratives: toward a new Mormon understanding of apostasy / Epilogue: "We have only the old thing": rethinking Mormon restoration / Appendix. Statement of the First Presidency regarding God's love for all mankind. Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young -- Eric R. Dursteler -- Christopher C. Jones and Stephen J. Fleming -- Matthew Bowman -- Miranda Wilcox -- Cory D. Crawford -- Matthew J. Grey -- Taylor G. Petrey -- Lincoln H. Blumell -- Ariel Bybee Laughton -- Spencer E. Young -- Jonathan Green -- David D. Peck -- John D. Young -- Terryl Givens -- Introduction /

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.


Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine)
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
RELIGION / Christianity / General


Electronic books.

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