Author: Julius Caesar BilleterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Temple of Promise, Jackson County, Missouri
Author: Julius Caesar BilleterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Temple of Promise, Jackson County, Missouri
Author: Julius C (Julius Caesar) BilleterPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014409881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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Images of the New Jerusalem
Author: Craig S. CampbellPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572333123
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, is associated primarily with its most famous son, President Harry Truman. Yet Independence is also home to a unique and complex religious landscape regarded as sacred space by hundreds of thousands of people associated with the Latter Day Saint family of churches. In 1831 Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint (LDS) movement, declared Independence the site of the New Jerusalem, where followers would build a sacred city, the center of Zion. Smith prophesied that Jesus Christ would return in millennial and glorious advent to Independence, an act that would make the city an American counterpart to old world Jerusalem. Smith's plan would have mixed the best qualities of nineteenth-century American pastoral and urban psyche. However, the great splintering among returning Latter Day Saint groups has led to divergent beliefs and multiple interpretations of millennial place. Images of the New Jerusalem culls viewpoints from publications and interviews and contrasts them with official church doctrines and mapped land holdings. For example, with a desire to attract mainstream American, the Western LDS Church, which holds the largest amount of land in northwestern Missouri, keeps fairly silent on the New Jerusalem, while the RLDS Church (now the Community of Christ) has dropped millennial claims gradually, adopting a liberal secular style of pseudo-Protestantism. Smaller groups, independent of these two, see sacred space in more spatially and doctrinally limited ways. The religious ecology among Latter Day Saint churches allows each group its place in the public spotlight, and a number of sociopolitical mechanisms reduce conflict among them. Nonetheless, Independence has developed many traits of the world's most seasoned and conflicted sacred places over a relatively short time. This book opens the field of scholarship on this region, where profound spatial and doctrinal variation continues. Craig S. Campbell is professor of geography at Youngstown State University. He has published articles in Journal of Cultural Geography, Cartographica, The Professional Geographer, Political Geography, and other journals.
Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition
Author: Professor Douglas J. DaviesPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409481166
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores Mormon theology in new ways from a scholarly non-Mormon perspective. Bringing Jesus and Satan into relationship with Joseph Smith the founding prophet, Douglas Davies shows how the Mormon 'Plan of Salvation' can be equated with mainstream Christianity's doctrine of the Trinity as a driving force of the faith. Exploring how Jesus has been understood by Mormons, his many Mormon identities are described in this book: he is the Jehovah of the Bible, our Elder Brother and Father, probably also a husband, he visited the dead and is also the antagonist of Satan-Lucifer. This book offers a way into the Mormon 'problem of evil' understood as apostasy, from pre-mortal times to today. Three images reveal the wider problem of evil in Mormonism: Jesus' pre-mortal encounter with Lucifer in a heavenly council deciding on the Plan of Salvation, Jesus Christ's great suffering-engagement with evil in Gethsemane, and Joseph Smith's First Vision of the divine when he was almost destroyed by an evil force. Douglas Davies, well-known for his previous accounts of Mormon life and thought, shows how renewed Mormon interest in theological questions of belief can be understood against the background of Mormon church-organization and its growing presence on the world-stage of Christianity.
The King Follett Discourse
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258145712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsPublisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ISBN: 1629737100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him, accepting the invitation to become Saints through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But opposition and violence follow those who defy old traditions to embrace restored truths. The women and men who join the church must choose whether or not they will stay true to their covenants, establish Zion, and proclaim the gospel to a troubled world. The Standard of Truth is the first book in Saints, a new, four-volume narrative history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fast-paced, meticulously researched, Saints recounts true stories of Latter-day Saints across the globe and answers the Lord’s call to write history “for the good of the church, and for the rising generations” (Doctrine and Covenants 69:8).
Adventures in the Far West
Author: Catherine Van Valkenburg WaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Author: The Doctrine and Covenants
Author: Joseph Smith (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Pioneers in the Attic
Author: Sara M. PattersonPublisher:
ISBN: 0190933860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Pioneers in the Attic explores the way in which narratives of place came to establish Mormon identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and how early understandings of "gathering^" and "Zion" encouraged individuals to migrate and live communally in the Great Basin region of the American West. Patterson looks at how this history has led to a modern-day community that grounds itself in the memorialization of early Mormon pioneer identity.