Ask Gramps

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Author: H. Clay Gorton

Publisher:

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780970800862

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Questions run the breadth of the Mormon experience, including doctrinal questions as well as questions about the LDS lifestyle.

Early Mormon Documents

Early Mormon Documents PDF

Author: Dan Vogel

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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In Volume Five: INTERVIEWS WITH BOOK OF MORMON WITNESS DAVID WHITMER, CONDUCTED BY: Joseph F. Smith & Orson Pratt William H. Kelley & George A. Blakeslee George Q. Cannon Edmund C. Briggs & Rudolph Etzenhouser Joseph Smith III Zenas H. Gurley James Henry Moyle Thomas W. Smith Nathan Tanner, Jr. Edward Stevenson and the Chicago Times, Kansas City Journal, Omaha Herald, and St. Louis Republican, among others. STATEMENTS, TESTIMONIES, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES BY: Hiram Page John Whitmer William E. McClellin Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery Diedrich Willers Lucius Fenn Ezra Booth Parley P. Pratt Sidney Rigdon J. L. Traughber and minutes of meetings, ordination certificates, maps, and a chronology of the Joseph Smith family, 1771-1831.

An Introduction to Mormonism

An Introduction to Mormonism PDF

Author: Douglas J. Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521817387

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Although one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains a mystery in terms of its core beliefs and theological structure. This timely book provides an important introduction to the basic history, doctrines and practices of The LDS--the "Mormon" Church. Emphasizing sacred texts and prophecies as well as the crucial Temple rituals of endowments, marriage and baptism, it is written by a non-believer, who describes Mormonism in ways that non-Mormons can understand.

CES Letter

CES Letter PDF

Author: Jeremy Runnells

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780998869902

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CES Letter is one Latter-Day Saint's honest quest to get official answers from the LDS Church (Mormon) on its troubling origins, history, and practices. Jeremy Runnells was offered an opportunity to discuss his own doubts with a director of the Church Educational System (CES) and was assured that his doubts could be resolved. After reading Jeremy's letter, the director promised him a response.No response ever came.

Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith

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Author: Robert D. Anderson

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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A troubled childhood. A difficult adolescence. How might these have affected the adult character of church founder Joseph Smith? Psychiatrist Robert D. Anderson explores the impact on young Joseph of his family's ten moves in sixteen years, their dire poverty, especially after his father's Chinese export venture failed, and his father's drinking. It is equally significant, writes Anderson, that Joseph's mother suffered bouts of depression. For instance, "for months" she "did not feel as though life was worth seeking" after two sisters died of tuberculosis and later when she buried two sons, Ephraim and Alvin. A typhoid epidemic nearly claimed her daughter Sophronia, and the same affliction left Joseph with a crippled leg, after which he was sent to live on the coast with an uncle. Such factors and others produced emotional wounds that emerged later in the prophet's life and writings, in particular, according to Anderson, in the Book of Mormon.