Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession

Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession
Author: Joseph Fielding Smith
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession" by Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. is a doctrinal book. During the summer of 1906 and continuing until the summer of 1907, a number of Reorganite ministers who were engaged in missionary work in Salt Lake City and Ogden, were greatly encouraged by one or two apostates and the local anti-"Mormon" press. Their method of proselyting was of the usual nature, a tirade of abuse and false accusation hurled at the authorities of the Church. Encouraged by the anti-"Mormon" help, they became extremely vindictive in their references to President Brigham Young and the present Church authorities. Their sermons were so bitter and malignant—which has been the character of most of their work from the beginning, in Utah—that they raised considerable protest from many respectable citizens. Even non-"Mormons" declared that in no other community would such vicious attacks be tolerated.

Joseph Smith III

Joseph Smith III
Author: Roger D. Launius
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252065156

This interesting, well-researched biography of the founder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints covers the 54 years of his presidency, a tenure marked by Mormon factionalism that he succeeded in controlling. The son of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith III at first resisted succeeding his father as leader and prophet but, as his biographer underscores, his governance from 1860 until his death in 1914 was fiercely committed to the religious legacy of his parent. Differing in style from the elder Smith's "sometimes disastrous impracticality," his son exemplified rugged individualism with a secular pragmatism that sprang from his legal education. An opponent of polygamy, as proclaimed by Brigham Young, the younger Smith established a viable bureaucracy and a style of leadership that characterizes the Mormon community today, notes the author, a military historian.

Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible

Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible
Author: Kent P. Jackson
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages: 888
Release: 2004
Genre: Bibles
ISBN:

This volume--the work of a lifetime--brings together all the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript in a remarkable and useful way. Now, for the first time, readers can take a careful look at the complete text, along with photos of several actual manuscript pages. The book contains a typographic transcription of all the original manuscripts, unedited and preserved exactly as dictated by the Prophet Joseph and recorded by his scribes. In addition, this volume features essays on the background, doctrinal contributions, and editorial procedures involved in the Joseph Smith Translation, as well as the history of the manuscripts since Joseph Smith's day.

Father Figure

Father Figure
Author: Roger D. Launius
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Homosexual Saints

Homosexual Saints
Author: William Dean Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008-01
Genre: Gays
ISBN: 9781934901052