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Beliefs

Beliefs  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0006
Format: 
chapter
What are the most distinctive beliefs of Latter-day Saints? One unique teaching of the Latter-day Saints is belief in God as a divine being who exists in eternal relationship with ... More
Conflicts and Challenges

Conflicts and Challenges  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0010
Format: 
chapter
If the church is led by revelation, why has its position on many issues (race, marriage, homosexuality) changed? Latter-day Saints tend to see developments in their church as ... More
Culture

Culture  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0008
Format: 
chapter
How homogeneous are the Latter-day Saints? Latter-day Saints do not constitute an ethnicity; however, they do diverge—in the United States at least—from national norms across a ... More
History

History  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0002
Format: 
chapter
What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? The Church of Jesus Christ is a Christian denomination founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith. Neither Catholic nor Protestant, ... More
Organization

Organization  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0004
Format: 
chapter
How is the church organized? One of the Articles of Faith (6) states: “we believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, namely apostles, prophets, pastors ... More
Polygamy

Polygamy  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0003
Format: 
chapter
Why did the Latter-day Saints practice polygamy? Joseph Smith never left a record of his thoughts on the origin of a practice that Latter-day Saints called plural marriage, ... More
Practice

Practice  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0007
Format: 
chapter
Why did Latter-day Saints practice communalism? From a variety of secular and religious motivations, in the nineteenth century many individuals experimented with communalist ... More
Questions on the Periphery

Questions on the Periphery  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0009
Format: 
chapter
Who are the three Nephites? In the closing passages of the Gospel of John, there is a cryptic exchange involving Peter, Jesus, and John. Looking at John, Peter asks Jesus: “what ... More
Scriptures

Scriptures  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0005
Format: 
chapter
The Book of Mormon What is the Book of Mormon? The Book of Mormon, which members of the Church of Jesus Christ accept as scripture alongside the Bible, begins as a clan ... More
What Everyone Needs to Know About Mormonism (or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

What Everyone Needs to Know About Mormonism (or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)  

Terryl Givens

in Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
26 November 2020
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780190885083.003.0001
Format: 
chapter
Let’s start with the name: What to call them? It is often the case that a word originally invoked as a term of derision comes to be tolerated—or even embraced—by the group to ... More

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