House of Faith House of Cards

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449085210
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis House of Faith House of Cards by : Eric N. Davis

Download or read book House of Faith House of Cards written by Eric N. Davis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concise. Vivid. Honest." - Dan Barker, critically acclaimed author of 'Godless' and 'Losing Faith in Faith' "Brutally honest, insightful, and compelling storytelling." - Lyndon Lamborn, author of 'Standing for Something More' When a young couple searched for clues connecting them to a famous ancestor, their journey led them on a path they never expected - converting to Mormonism. House of Faith House of Cards tells the turbulent life story of their son, Eric, including all the typical Mormon experiences, and some extraordinary episodes no Mormon will ever encounter. He participated with family members in his first secret temple ritual - normally reserved for adults - at the age of four, only to be excluded from a similar ceremony, involving his family, thirteen years later. In 1857, a company of 120 immigrants set out from a small Arkansas town, toward California. In a tragic twist of fate, they never reached their destination. While encamped in southern Utah, local Mormons and Paiute Indians launched an ambush, brutally slaughtering the group, in what became known as the Mountain Meadows massacre. 125 years later, Eric would be raised as a Mormon in the same Arkansas community where this wagon train initially departed. There, he learned just how much some people still despised that faith. While training for and serving a church mission in Canada, in the mid-1990s, Eric shared a room and became acquainted with a fellow missionary named Mark Hacking. Less than a decade later, when the disappearance and murder of Hacking's wife became highly publicized, several international media outlets approached Eric, searching for any juicy detail of the man's troubled past. These stories are just the tip of the iceberg.

The Mormon Contradiction

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ISBN 13 : 1449070671
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mormon Contradiction by : Marcia Van Outen

Download or read book The Mormon Contradiction written by Marcia Van Outen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1820s a young boy named Joseph Smith claimed that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him and told him to found a new church. Thus began Mormonism, a faith that has grown to thirteen million members worldwide. The Mormon Contradiction: In Their Own Words offers the reader an insight into what the Mormon Church is really all about, including: § Where the Book of Mormon really came from § Joseph Smith's personal history and use of Occultism and Freemasonry § The original accounts of what happened to Smith's apostles during visions, as related by them § The Masonic and Occult roots of Mormon Temple ceremonies and oaths, including the use of Occult symbols in the architecture of the Salt Lake Temple § The Book of Abraham proven to be a fabrication § Who The Danites were § The original versions of LDS revelations, including the doctrine of polygamy and the Manifesto § DNA evidence proving the Book of Mormon's history of Native Americans to be false § Linguistic and anthropological studies proving there was no migration of Jews to the New World

A Mormon Odyssey

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ISBN 13 : 9781413418798
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis A Mormon Odyssey by : Larry Braithwaite

Download or read book A Mormon Odyssey written by Larry Braithwaite and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mormon Odyssey takes the reader into the heart and soul of a Mormon couple who discover that the religion of their heritage is laced with a web of lies, deceit, and cover-up. They began their journeys separately, each motivated by a desire to learn the unvarnished truth about the religion they had come to embrace. As they followed the trail of Mormonism from before its inception they discovered a history at odds with itself, where truth was illusive and nothing was what it seemed. Join their heart-wrenching journey through Mormonism and beyond. Based upon the personal experiences of the author and her husband followed by an in-depth research into the original documentation of the religion, they learn things about the Mormon Church and themselves that they never dreamed. Their integrity is tested, their minds are challenged, and their hearts are broken. It took tremendous courage and commitment to take such a journey but in the end they have triumphed, discovering that spirituality lives in the heart of the individual not in religious doctrine. A Mormon Odyssey is so touching, so informative, and so thoroughly documented that it may well change the reader's life.

The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism

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Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581127393
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (273 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism by : Marion Stricker

Download or read book The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism written by Marion Stricker and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one summarize a convoluted Pattern that defies common sense? Perhaps, that says it. The Pattern of The Double-Bind is a convoluted, insidious stratagem that turns our mental and emotional common sense world upside down. It is a circular pattern that ends in a vortex of depression and possible suicide. This book is the culmination of a twenty-year odyssey, a personal quest for a solution to an unknown problem that had become emotionally and intellectually intolerable for the author. What she found through trial and error, following threads and connections, was a pattern of behavior that she finally identified and named The Pattern of The Double-Bind. She first discovered it in her Mormon marriage, and then in Mormonism itself. Part I describes The Nature of The Pattern and The Double-Bind; it defines and gives examples of what The Pattern is, how it is used in different stages - and what results are incurred in each stage. Parts II and III present personal experiences of The Pattern in the lives of former members of the Mormon church. The last section, Part IV, gives a Summary of The Pattern and its antidote ... in How to Free Oneself from The Pattern. Responses from Readers: "Your essays are profound and insightful." "Thank you for publishing your WebPage. It has helped me intellectually identify what I intuitively know Mormonism is." "I have read the information on your site and found you did an excellent job in describing the impossible."

Secret Ceremonies

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ISBN 13 : 9780285631915
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis Secret Ceremonies by : Deborah Laake

Download or read book Secret Ceremonies written by Deborah Laake and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stretching the Heavens

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664348
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Book Synopsis Stretching the Heavens by : Terryl L. Givens

Download or read book Stretching the Heavens written by Terryl L. Givens and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mormonism—lived in the crossfire between religious tradition and reform. This first serious biography, by leading historian Terryl L. Givens, shimmers with the personal tensions felt deeply by England during the turmoil of the late twentieth century. Drawing on unprecedented access to England's personal papers, Givens paints a multifaceted portrait of a devout Latter-day Saint whose precarious position on the edge of church hierarchy was instrumental to his ability to shape the study of modern Mormonism. A professor of literature at Brigham Young University, England also taught in the Church Educational System. And yet from the sixties on, he set church leaders' teeth on edge as he protested the Vietnam War, decried institutional racism and sexism, and supported Poland's Solidarity movement—all at a time when Latter-day Saints were ultra-patriotic and banned Black ordination. England could also be intemperate, proud of his own rectitude, and neglectful of political realities and relationships, and he was eventually forced from his academic position. His last days, as he suffered from brain cancer, were marked by a spiritual agony that church leaders were unable to help him resolve.

Journal of Mormon History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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The Early Temples of the Mormons

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791494934
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis The Early Temples of the Mormons by : Laurel B. Andrew

Download or read book The Early Temples of the Mormons written by Laurel B. Andrew and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1978-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the six temples which the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints constructed in the nineteenth century. Though sharing the characteristics of various revival styles, the buildings demonstrate a progressive modification of these styles so as to express the functions of the temples and to reflect the theology and politics of the Mormons. The four temples in Utah, designed by the church president Brigham Young and his builder-architects, symbolize the merging of spiritual and temporal concerns and, the author believes, were meant to play an instrumental role in the transformation of America into a millennial kingdom of God and a second Garden of Eden. Thus, the temples are studied within the specific context of Mormonism and the broader spectrum of American cultural history as well. The account begins in Ohio, where the believers in Joseph Smith's restored gospel erected a temple resembling the New England meetinghouse in form and use. It follows the Mormons to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the second temple was built in the 1840s. The author demonstrates how the developing theology and the introduction of secret rituals began to change the meaning and the architectural form of the temple, as the style and architectural symbols were incorporated on the exterior of the temple. From Illinois the Mormons moved to Utah, where four temples were built. The most important, at Salt Lake City, is discussed in detail. The author evaluates the contributions of Brigham Young to its design, illustrates and discusses the drawings of the architect, and offers an interpretation of the symbolism of the building. She also discusses the attempt of the Mormons to establish an independent "Kingdom of God" in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ, and relates the Salt Lake City temple and the other Utah buildings to this effort. Her conclusion is that the Salt Lake City temple was to have a civic as well as religious function as the governmental center of the Kingdom of God. The other three Utah temples were intended to extend the authority of the Mormon government throughout Utah.

Leaving the Saints

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Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780749950910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the Saints by : Martha Nibley Beck

Download or read book Leaving the Saints written by Martha Nibley Beck and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up within the narrow confines of the Mormon Church, bestselling author Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church's high elders. After Adam, her second child, was born with Down's syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programmes at Harvard to return to Martha's hometown of Provo, Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them. But after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she began to recall horrific memories of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of one of the Church's most respected leaders. This book chronicles her difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had raised her, and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.

For the Strength of Youth

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Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ISBN 13 : 1465107665
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book For the Strength of Youth written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 1965 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.

Mormonism Unvailed

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ISBN 13 : 9781560852315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)

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Book Synopsis Mormonism Unvailed by : Eber D. Howe

Download or read book Mormonism Unvailed written by Eber D. Howe and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any Latter-day Saint who has ever defended his or her beliefs has likely addressed issues first raised by Eber D. Howe in 1834. Howe's famous exposé was the first of its kind, with information woven together from previous news articles and some thirty affidavits he and others collected. He lived and worked in Painesville, Ohio, where, in 1829, he had published about Joseph Smith's discovery of a "golden bible." Smith's decision to relocate in nearby Kirtland sparked Howe's attention. Of even more concern was that Howe's wife and other family members had joined the Mormon faith. Howe immediately began investigating the new Church and formed a coalition of like-minded reporters and detractors. By 1834, Howe had collected a large body of investigative material, including affidavits from Smith's former neighbors in New York and from Smith's father-inlaw in Pennsylvania. Howe learned about Smith's early interest in pirate gold and use of a seer stone in treasure seeking and heard theories from Smith's friends, followers, and family members about the Book of Mormon's origin. Indulging in literary criticism, Howe joked that Smith, "evidently a man of learning," was a student of "barrenness of style and expression." Despite its critical tone, Howe's exposé is valued by historians for its primary source material and account of the growth of Mormonism in northeastern Ohio.

The Vitality of Mormonism

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vitality of Mormonism by : James Edward Talmage

Download or read book The Vitality of Mormonism written by James Edward Talmage and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weber Studies

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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Embracing the Law

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Publisher : Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
ISBN 13 : 9780842528696
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Embracing the Law by : Joseph M. Spencer

Download or read book Embracing the Law written by Joseph M. Spencer and published by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ought the Book of Mormon to be read? And does the Book of Mormon have anythign to say about itself? The Book of Mormon has much to say aobut how it should be read.

Anthropological and Cross-cultural Themes in Mental Health

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Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthropological and Cross-cultural Themes in Mental Health by : Armando R. Favazza

Download or read book Anthropological and Cross-cultural Themes in Mental Health written by Armando R. Favazza and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3624 entries to English-language journal articles. Index medicus and Psychological abstracts used as sources for most references. Chronological arrangement by year. Entry gives bibliographical information and brief annotation. Author, subject indexes.

Albion's Seed

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974369X
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Albion's Seed by : David Hackett Fischer

Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

The Miracle of Forgiveness

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ISBN 13 : 9780884944447
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Miracle of Forgiveness written by Spencer W. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: