Author: George T. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Effects of Coaching on the Development of Proselyting Skills Used by the Missionary Training Center, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Provo, Utah, 1986
Author: George T. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Mormon Passage
Author: Gary ShepherdPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is the first book to present detailed, first-person accounts of the modern Mormon missionary experience. Armed with little more than youthful vigor and firmly held religious convictions, twins Gary and Gordon Shepherd left their home in Salt Lake City in 1964 for two years as missionaries in Mexico. Mormon Passage is one result of that experience, a combination of diaries and field notes kept by the two during their mission and later sociological analyses of their experiences. The brothers' goal is to help readers understand the consequences of the missionary experience for the vitality of Mormon religious life.
Dialogue
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Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A journal of Mormon thought.
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Index to American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Moroni and the Swastika
Author: David Conley NelsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806149744
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to “render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.
The Way to Perfection
Author: Joseph Fielding SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933317144
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Different Jesus?
Author: Robert L. MilletPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802828767
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on both Christian and Latter-day Saint documents, Robert Millet clearly explains the many beliefs that Mormons hold in common with traditional Christians and also highlights differences where they exist.
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
Author: Grant UnderwoodPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068263
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The most detailed study yet of early Mormon thought about the ""end times,"" The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism shows how Mormon views of Christ's imminent second coming exerted a profound influence on Mormonism between 1830 and 1846. By exploring how early LDS interpretation of the Bible and the Book of Mormon affected, and was affected by, Mormon millennial doctrines, Grant Underwood provides the first comprehensive linkage of the history of early Mormonism and millennial thought. He also probes LDS perceptions of the institutions and values prevalent before the Civil War, reassessing Mormonism's relationship to the dominant culture and placing Mormon millennial thought in the broader context of Judeo-Christian ideas about the end of the world."