Standing Apart
Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
Winner of the Best Anthology Award from John Whitmer Historical AssociationLatter-day Saints have a paradoxical relationship to the past; even as they invest their own history with sacred meaning, celebrating the restoration of ancient truths and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, they repudiate the eighteen centuries of Christianity that preceded the founding of their church as apostate distortions of the truth. Since the early days of Mormonism, Latter-day Saints have used the paradigm of apostasy and restoration in their narratives about the origin of their church. This has generated a powerful and enduring binary of categorization th…
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Weitere Autoren: Young, John D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-934815-2
- EAN: 9780199348152
- Produktnummer: 16995239
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'164 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 illus.
Über den Autor
Miranda Wilcox is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University where she teaches medieval literature.John D. Young is Assistant Professor of History at Flagler College where he teaches medieval history.
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