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Latter-Day Saints, Church Of Jesus Christ Of, Terryl Givens
Latter-Day Saints, Church Of Jesus Christ Of, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emerged in the 19th c. out of a Restoration* rather than a Reformation* ideology. Joseph Smith* organized the Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York, in 1830, shortly after he produced the Book of Mormon* which, he claimed, he received from the angel Moroni and translated from an ancient record.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Terryl Givens
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon or LDS church, constitute an organization that transcends simple denominational status. Though the Mormons were originally one of a multitude of restorationist churches emerging out of the ferment known as the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century, a number of factors conspired to forge an entity variously considered a religion, a people, a global tribe, and a New Religious Movement (NRM), the only "indigenously derived ethnic group" in the United States and an emerging world religion. Mormonism's distinctive doctrines challenge the boundaries of …