Recognizing Mormonism's dissenting tradition, Differing Visions presents selections on nineteen Mormon dissenters - David Whitmer, Fawn Brodie, and Sonia Johnson among them - in a volume that focuses on the variety of religious sentiment within the church and assesses factors that have encourag...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Urbana u.a. Univ. of Illinois Press 1994
Schlagworte:	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints > Controversial literature > History and criticism Mormonen Dissenters, Religious > United States Mormon Church > Controversial literature > History and criticism Mormons > United States Renegat USA Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Recognizing Mormonism's dissenting tradition, Differing Visions presents selections on nineteen Mormon dissenters - David Whitmer, Fawn Brodie, and Sonia Johnson among them - in a volume that focuses on the variety of religious sentiment within the church and assesses factors that have encouraged divergent ideas from the early 1800s on Besides offering little-known information about the lives of those profiled, the collection shows that the dissenters generally were moved by conscience and questions of right and wrong in leaving Mormonism and that none of them ever fully shed the remnants of the institutional church Whitmer is cast in a new light here, in a selection that emphasizes his disenchantment with Joseph Smith's increasing power and his belief that the church was moving counter to Whitmer's understanding of what religion should do
Beschreibung:	XI, 402 S.
ISBN:	0252020693