Standing apart :Mormon historical consciousness and the concept of apostasy /edited by Miranda Wilcox, John D. Young.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Standing apart :Mormon historical consciousness and the concept of apostasy /edited by Miranda Wilcox, John D. Young.

Description

Introduction /Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young --Historical periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy narrative /Eric R. Dursteler --"Except among that portion of mankind": early Mormon conceptions of the apostasy /Christopher C. Jones and Stephen J. Fleming --James Talmage, B.H. Roberts, and confessional history in a secular age /Matthew Bowman --Narrating apostasy and the LDS quest for identity /Miranda Wilcox --Competing histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint tradition /Cory D. Crawford --Latter-day Saint perceptions of Jewish apostasy in the time of Jesus /Matthew J. Grey --Purity and parallels: constructing the apostasy narrative of early Christianity /Taylor G. Petrey --Rereading the Council of Nicaea and its creed /Lincoln H. Blumell --Apostasy's ancestors: anti-Arian and anti-Mormon discourse in the struggle for Christianity /Ariel Bybee Laughton --"Complexity and richness": reenvisioning the Middle Ages for Mormon historical narratives /Spencer E. Young --King Ratbod's dilemma: apostasy and restoration in the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries /Jonathan Green --Covenantal pluralism in Mormonism and Islam: alternatives to the binary logic of apostasy /David D. Peck --Long narratives: toward a new Mormon understanding of apostasy /John D. Young --Epilogue: "We have only the old thing": rethinking Mormon restoration /Terryl Givens --Appendix. Statement of the First Presidency regarding God's love for all mankind. xii, 364 pages :illustration, portraits ;24 cm

Book Details

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Publication Subjects

Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine)--fast--(OCoLC)fst00947007 Theology, Doctrinal.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01149617 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--(OCoLC)fst00549691

Call No.

BX8643 .G74 S73 2014

ISBN

9780199348138, 0199348138, 9780199348145, 0199348146

LCCN

2013040013

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia Date: [2014] Publication Info: {copy}2014