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The Kingdom Of God In Mormon Thought And Practice, 1830-1896, Klaus J. Hansen
The Kingdom Of God In Mormon Thought And Practice, 1830-1896, Klaus J. Hansen
Wayne State University Dissertations
In the spring of 1844 the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith organized a secret organization called the Council of Fifty as the governing body of a political kingdom of God which ultimately was to rule the world. The idea of the political kingdom of God and attempts of the Council of Fifty to transform this idea into reality through the creation of a temporal Mormon state provide the central theme of Mormon history during the major part of the nineteenth century. It is therefore one of the more puzzling phenomena of historiography that these aspects of Mormon history have escaped almost …
The Mormon Colonies Of Northern Mexico: A History, 1885-1912, B Carmon Hardy
The Mormon Colonies Of Northern Mexico: A History, 1885-1912, B Carmon Hardy
Wayne State University Dissertations
This study, based almost entirely on Mormon diaries and other primary documents, suggests in the first place, that Mormonism while displaying a kind of cultural separatism on one level, was, at another level, in close harmony with American notions of economic and political expansionism. The study of the character of the colonists' thought and culture, provides explanation for the difficulties imposed on Mexico Mormons during and after the 1910 Revolution. Finally, this dissertation seeks to chronicle a frontier venture. For the Mormon undertaking in northern Mexico constitutes one of the last chapters in the story of America's nineteenth century pioneers.