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Author : Steven L. Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration written by Steven L. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560854012
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration written by Steven L. Shields and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560854555
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement written by Steven L Shields and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God's restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen circumstances would help to spawn hundreds of off-shoots and competing denominations--all claiming their origins in a movement born and sustained originally by Smith and Sidney Rigdon. Many of these groups have endured and boast multiple congregations of believers in many countries; others came and went quickly and have long since been forgotten. Some have survived but have only appealed to a handful of believers. Steven L Shields has for decades chronicled the various origins and paths of all known Restoration movements. This fifth edition of his encyclopedic study, offered as an ebook, includes recent groups born as internet communities. That so many groups and individuals have been unsatisfied with the more mainstream Mormon churches, yet cling to tenets of the Smith-Rigdon movement, speaks to the strengths of the restoration concept and the naïve view that one denomination can successfully meet all the needs of believers.
Author : Steven L Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560854562
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement written by Steven L Shields and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God's restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen circumstances would help to spawn hundreds of off-shoots and competing denominations--all claiming their origins in a movement born and sustained originally by Smith and Sidney Rigdon. Many of these groups have endured and boast multiple congregations of believers in many countries; others came and went quickly and have long since been forgotten. Some have survived but have only appealed to a handful of believers. Steven L Shields has for decades chronicled the various origins and paths of all known Restoration movements. This fifth edition of his encyclopedic study, offered as an ebook, includes recent groups born as internet communities. That so many groups and individuals have been unsatisfied with the more mainstream Mormon churches, yet cling to tenets of the Smith-Rigdon movement, speaks to the strengths of the restoration concept and the naïve view that one denomination can successfully meet all the needs of believers.
Author : Steven L. Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830905690
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths written by Steven L. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of this book provides insight into the histories and theologies of the varied churches within the Restoration movement.
Author : Steven L. Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941214483
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration written by Steven L. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627753
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America written by Timothy Miller and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.
Author : Jeffrey Kaplan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759102040
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Cultic Milieu written by Jeffrey Kaplan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy, violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many other diverse groups came together to protest what they saw as the unfair power of a nondemocratic elite. But how did such strange bedfellows come together? And can their unity continue? In 1972--another period of social upheaval--sociologist Colin Campbell posited a "cultic milieu": An underground region where true seekers test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between loosely organized groups, but the larger milieu persists in opposition to the dominant culture. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow find Campbell's theory especially useful in coming to grips with the varied oppositional groups of today. While the issues differ, current subcultures often behave in similar ways to deviant groups of the past. The Cultic Milieu brings together scholars looking at racial, religious and environmental oppositional groups as well as looking at the watchdog groups that oppose these groups in turn. While providing fascinating information on their own subjects, each essay contributes to a larger understanding of our present-day cultic milieu. For classes in the social sciences or religious studies, The Cultic Milieu offers a novel way to look at the interactions and ideas of those who fight against the powerful in our global age.
Author : Gospel Tangents Interview
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793032027
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Steve Shields on Divergent Paths written by Gospel Tangents Interview and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm excited to introduce Steven Shields. He has written several editions of a book, Divergent Paths of the Restoration. We are going to talk about some of the up to 500 expressions of Mormon Church, or maybe not necessarily the Mormon Church, but just groups affiliated with Mormonism that trace their founding back to Joseph Smith. It's going to be a really fun conversation. We're probably going to talk about some groups you've never heard of that all tie back to Joseph Smith, as well as Steve's personal spiritual journey, and a little bit on the Succession Crisis. It's going to be a really fun conversation.
Author : Steven L. Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Divergent Paths of the Restoration written by Steven L. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colby Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560854470
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith's Revelations in Their Early American Contexts written by Colby Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty years of United States history was a period of seemingly endless possibility. With the birth of a new country during the age of revolutions came new religions, new literary genres, new political parties, temperance and abolitionist societies, and the expansion of print and marketing networks that would dramatically change the course of the century. Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith's Revelations in Their Early American Contexts brings together ten essays from leading scholars on the history of early American religion and print culture. Covering issues of gender, race, prophecy, education, scripture, real and narrative time, authority and power, and apocalypticism, the essays invite the reader--scholar, student, etc.--to expand their knowledge of early Mormon history by grasping more fully the American contexts that Mormonism grew out of. Contributors include Catherine A. Brekus, William Davis, Elizabeth Fenton, Kathleen Flake, Paul Gutjahr, Jared Hickman, Susan Juster, Seth Perry, Laura Thiemann Scales, and Roberto A. Valdeón.
Author : Allen F. Harrod
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449727972
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Deception by Design written by Allen F. Harrod and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception by Design provides a comprehensive study of Mormonism; exposes the surprising source of Joseph Smiths conversion story; reveals the immense influence of others on Smiths beliefs; equips evangelical Christians with principals for witnessing to Mormons. Allen Harrod has written a wonderfully helpful and insightful book on Mormonism. It is both original in its research, as well as in its offering helpful conclusions and applications regarding the nature and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. R. Philip Roberts, president, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Deception by Design represents the best book I have seen in terms of explicating the beliefs and theology of Mormonism and at the same time providing superb approaches to presenting the claims of Christ to Mormons. Dr. Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407172
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book When Prophets Die written by Timothy Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the charismatic founder/leader of a religious movement dies, the popular belief is that the movement usually disintegrates. However, many new religions not only survive but prosper, despite leadership transition. In this book, prominent scholars examine what happened to eleven new movements following the deaths of their leaders, and why. An Introduction by J. Gordon Melton serves to integrate the case studies.
Author : Andray Abrahamian
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673705
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book North Korea and Myanmar written by Andray Abrahamian and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are Asia's most mysterious, tragic stories. For decades they were infamous as the region's most militarized and repressed societies, self-isolated and under sanctions by the international community while, from Singapore to Japan, the rest of Asia saw historic wealth creation and growing middle class security. For Burma, the threat was internal: insurgent factions clashed with the government and each other. For North Korea, it was external: a hostile superpower--the United States--and a far more successful rival state--South Korea--occupying half of the Korean peninsula. Over time, Myanmar defeated its enemies, giving it space to explore a form of democratization and openness that has led to reintegration into international society. Meanwhile, North Korea's regime believes its nuclear arsenal--the primary reason for their pariah status--is vital to survival.
Author : Latayne C. Scott
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310291534
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Mormon Mirage written by Latayne C. Scott and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades after leaving the Mormon faith, Latayne Colvett Scott looks back to her original journey out of Mormonism and the reasons why she left. Revised and updated, this third edition of The Mormon Mirage presents both a fascinating inside look at Mormonism and new and formidable evidence against its claims and teachings.
Author : L. Hannah Stoddard
Publisher : Joseph Smith Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1648263003
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Faith Crisis, Volume 1: We Were NOT Betrayed! written by L. Hannah Stoddard and published by Joseph Smith Foundation. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After working with thousands of struggling members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over many years, the authors decided to write a book offering hope and answers for those struggling with faith crisis. Unbeknownst to the general Church membership, the 20th century would witness an organized effort to rewrite Latter-day Saint history from within its own ranks. In a head-to-head, behind-the-scenes-battle, traditional leaders resisted intellectual progressives working in the Church History Department and at BYU, who claimed some forty years ago that it would take a generation to re-educate the Church membership. Where are we in this attempted re-education? What is the New Mormon History, and how does it personally affect you and your family? Join us as we explore newly-available diaries, review old books, and bring untold history into the light! Progressives claim the Church covered up its history for nearly 200 years. Is the current faith crisis stemming from unmasked history . . . or new interpretations? Why did New Mormon Historians insist Hofmann’s forgeries were legitimate, even when investigators provided convincing evidence to them of the hoax? How did Bruce R. McConkie know Hofmann’s Joseph Smith III blessing was a fake, despite authentication by document experts and pressure by historians calling him “incompetent” for questioning? Who were the “Swearing Elders”? How did this group of progressive Latter-day Saints reshape the identity of Mormonism? Why did Carol Lynn Pearson and Leonard Arrington share cards that read, “History is on our side—as long as we can control the historians?” Leonard Arrington shared that an “invisible higher power” commissioned him to rewrite or reconstruct our dominant narrative of the Restoration. Did God want our history changed? Why did Leonard Arrington say the First Vision, Nephites and gold plates were part of the Mormon “myth”? Why did Leonard Arrington note that if he were honest about his beliefs, “not many” Latter-day Saints would “want [him] to teach their children”? How did this affect his career as Church Historian and later at BYU? Progressives, working in the Church History Department and at BYU, claimed 40 years ago it would take a generation to re-educate the Church. Where are we in this re-education? “The research and findings in this volume are truly history altering. Using newly released documents, combined with deep knowledge of Church History, the Stoddards are bringing to light what could be termed a “soft coup d’état” of the Church’s scriptures and prophets by progressive historians, bent on altering its history. Hold tight to your faith in the history held by the church for over 150 years and the teachings of our prophets as you discover how deep this attempted takeover has infiltrated, and altered, our sacred history.” (Rod Meldrum, researcher, best-selling Latter-day Saint author, & international lecturer) “Years ago, we stopped going to church. Suddenly, God awakened me and brought me back into the fold. As I hungered and learned more about the restoration, it was upsetting to hear things being said about Joseph that I KNEW were not true. I hit a major faith crisis. Right as I was about to leave the church and follow another sect that follows the teachings of the Book of Mormon, I read the Stoddard’s Faith Crisis book. This book, along with promptings and teachings from the spirit helped me navigate through many questions. This book only helped grow my testimony of the truthfulness of the restoration of the gospel and of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I now stand strong in the Faith and know that I am in the only true church. I’m so thankful for the Joseph Smith Foundation and the many hours put in toward helping others stay strong in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!” (Latter-day Saint mother of six)
Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067310
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Differing Visions written by Roger D. Launius and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious attempt to analyze the careers of converts who later left the Mormon church, this book contains selections about 18 Mormon dissenters--David Whitmer, Fawn Brody, and Sonia Johnson, among them--contributed by Richard N. Holzapfel, John S. McCormick, Kenneth M. Godfrey, William D. Russell, Dan Vogel, Jessie L. Embry, and many others.
