New Perspectives in Mormon Studies
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies

Author: Quincy D. Newell

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0806189207

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Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation. One of the main purposes of this volume is to define and cross boundaries. Part 1 addresses internal boundaries—walls that divide some Mormons from others. One chapter examines Joseph Smith’s writings on economic matters and argues that he sought to make social distinctions irrelevant. Another considers Jane James, an African American Latter-day Saint, and her experiences at the intersection of religious and racial identity In part 2, contributors consider Mormonism's influence on Pentecostal leader John Alexander Dowie and relationships between Mormonism and other religious movements, including Methodism and Presbyterianism. Other chapters compare Mormonism and Islam and examine the group Ex-Mormons for Jesus/Saints Alive in Jesus. Part 3 deals with Mormonism in the academy and the ongoing evolution of Mormon studies. Written by contributors from a variety of backgrounds, these essays will spark scholarly dialogue across the disciplines.

Early Mormon Documents
Early Mormon Documents

Author: Dan Vogel

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13:

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"This multi-volume collection of over 450 documents offers readers access to the primary written and printed sources relating to Mormon origins in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania. As such, it is essentially a documentary history of the Joseph Smith, Sr., family and the infant Church of Christ (later The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), beginning with the early lives of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and ending with Joseph Smith Jr.'s move to Ohio in January 1831 and removal of most of the church later that spring."--Intro., vol. 1, p. xi.

Dialogue
Dialogue

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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A journal of Mormon thought.

Salvation and Solvency
Salvation and Solvency

Author: Robert Christian Kahlert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 311047347X

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This monograph tracks the development of the socio-economic stance of early Mormonism, an American Millenarian Restorationist movement, through the first fourteen years of the church’s existence, from its incorporation in the spring of 1830 in New York, through Ohio and Missouri and Illinois, up to the lynching of its prophet Joseph Smith Jr in the summer of 1844. Mormonism used a new revelation, the Book of Mormon, and a new apostolically inspired church organization to connect American antiquities to covenant-theological salvation history. The innovative religious strategy was coupled with a conservative socio-economic stance that was supportive of technological innovation. This analysis of the early Mormon church uses case studies focused on socio-economic problems, such as wealth distribution, the financing of publication projects, land trade and banking, and caring for the poor. In order to correct for the agentive overtones of standard Mormon historiography, both in its supportive and in its detractive stance, the explanatory models of social time from Fernand Braudel’s classic work on the Mediterranean are transferred to and applied in the nineteenth-century American context.

Woman of Nobility
Woman of Nobility

Author: Nina Kathryn Bissett

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1498283659

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In the late 1800s a supremely qualified woman educator and administrator made an unforgettable imprint on well-known missionaries, educators, and preachers. Emma Dryer worked with Pacific Garden Mission's George and Sarah Clarke, Methodist deaconess Lucy Rider Meyer, Wheaton College President Charles Blanchard, Anna Spafford--whose husband wrote the beloved hymn It is Well with My Soul--and many others. However, her greatest achievement came from her divinely guided association with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, with its compelling and far-reaching ministries, would undoubtedly not exist today if not for the driving missionary fervor of Emma Dryer. Her story is finally being told in light of this association. A close examination of her ministry relationship with Mr. Moody reveals the interconnected aspects of their lives from a viewpoint never before written. This includes examining their leadership styles and effectiveness in modern day terms as well as contrasting their learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses as both evangelist and educator. This book represents the first biography of Emma Dryer's life with undying evidence of the answered prayers of a noble and virtuous woman who dedicated her life to serve and honor Christ until his eminent return.