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Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Miranda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.
- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine).
- Local Subjects:
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.
- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Latter-day Saints have a paradoxical relationship to the past; even as they invest their own history with sacred meaning, celebrating the restoration of ancient truths and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, they repudiate the eighteen centuries of Christianity that preceded the founding of their church as apostate distortions of the truth. Since the early days of Mormonism, Latter-day Saints have used the paradigm of apostasy and restoration in their narratives about the origin of their church. This has generated a powerful and enduring binary of categorization that has profoundly impacte
- Contents:
- Cover; Standing Apart; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Notes on Sources; Standing Apart; Introduction; PART ONEContextualizing the LDS Great Apostasy Narrative; 1 Historical Periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy Narrative; 2 "Except among that Portion of Mankind"; 3 James Talmage, B. H. Roberts, and Confessional History in a Secular Age; 4 Narrating Apostasy and the LDS Quest for Identity; PART TWORenarrating the Apostasy: New Approaches; 5 Competing Histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
- 6 Latter-day Saint Perceptions of Jewish Apostasy in the Time of Jesus7 Purity and Parallels; 8 Rereading the Council of Nicaea and Its Creed; 9 Apostasy's Ancestors; 10 "Complexity and Richness"; 11 King Ratbod's Dilemma; 12 Covenantal Pluralism in Mormonism and Islam; 13 Long Narratives; Epilogue; AppendixStatement of the First Presidency Regarding God's Love for All Mankind; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-934815-4
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