• The law of consecration is a commandment in the Latter Day Saint movement in which adherents promise to dedicate their lives and material substance to...
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  • United Order (category Defunct organizational subdivisions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    the Order beginning in 1831 attempted to fully implement the law of consecration, a form of Christian communism or communalism, modeled after the New Testament...
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    addition to plural marriage, some of these groups also practice a form of Christian communalism known as the law of consecration or the United Order. The LDS...
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    successors. For many of these churches, the law of tithing replaced or supplemented the law of consecration. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
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    Danite (category History of the Latter Day Saint movement)
    functions, (1) enforcement of the Law of Consecration, (2) political activities, and (3) militia activities. The law of consecration was a commandment given...
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    Mormonism (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from March 2024)
    either abandoned, repudiated, or put in abeyance. These include: the law of consecration also known as the United Order (put in abeyance by the LDS Church...
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    as a means of living the traditional Latter Day Saint doctrine of the "Law of Consecration". In 2005, the UEP was seized by the state of Utah following...
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    in some of the monastic orders or "in the world" under the authority of her bishop, to the service of the church. The rite of consecration of virgins...
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    for the law of consecration. An 1832 revelation called "The Vision" added to the fundamentals of sin and atonement, and introduced doctrines of life after...
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  • day. List of Finnish utopian communities List of German utopian communities List of Fourierist Associations in the United States Federation of Egalitarian...
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    Zion's Camp (category History of the Latter Day Saint movement)
    presently unworthy to "redeem Zion" because of its lack of commitment to the United Order, or law of consecration. They were told they must "wait a little...
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    Consecration is the transfer of a person or a thing to the sacred sphere for a special purpose or service. The word consecration literally means "association...
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    Sanskrit term referring to these consecration rituals. Mormonism is replete with consecration doctrine, primarily Christ's title of "The Anointed One" signifying...
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    practices polygamy and the law of consecration. Its leader, Terrill R. Dalton, purports to be the Holy Ghost and the father of Jesus. However, the group...
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    Joseph Smith III (category American leaders of the Community of Christ)
    practice the "Law of Consecration" or "Order of Enoch." In 1881, Smith decided to move to Lamoni which became the new headquarters of the church. Although...
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    Hugh Nibley (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    volume 9 of his collected works, contains his essays on culture, where he critiqued capitalism and socialism, and endorsed the law of consecration. In a...
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    added a number of new doctrines and leadership offices. An attempt to establish a communitarian economy known as the "Law of Consecration" was established...
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    covenants (promises to God) that participants make, such as a covenant of consecration to the LDS Church. All LDS Church members who choose to serve as missionaries...
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  • of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration...
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  • society must be willing to live the law of consecration based on mutual feelings of charity, which is the pure love of Christ. Zion is the central physical...
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    excommunications of the four bishops Lefebvre had consecrated in 1988. Under the Catholic 1983 Code of Canon Law, canon 1013, the consecration of a bishop requires...
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  • Bishop (Latter Day Saints) (category Priesthood offices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    affairs and accounts of the church through the implementation of the law of consecration. Partridge was called to preside over the Missouri church in Joseph...
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  • for the law of consecration. An 1832 revelation called "The Vision" added to the fundamentals of sin and atonement, and introduced doctrines of life after...
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    Christian communism (category Types of socialism)
    needed] In the earliest years of the Mormon movement, Joseph Smith promoted the law of consecration and the concept of the United Order. Today, some Mormon...
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    principles: the law of consecration also known as the United Order the Adam–God teachings taught by Brigham Young and other early leaders of the LDS Church...
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    doctrines of plural marriage and the law of consecration, the TLC also teaches "multiple mortal probations," a form of reincarnation limited in scope to...
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  • formal cleansing, consecration, exorcism, or other act of banishing breaks the non-material bond. The first description of the law of contagion appeared...
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  • statements, often pointing to the church's belief in the "law of consecration" which is a form of socialism practiced by early church members in which all...
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  • referred to this form of theocratic communalism as the United Order, or the law of consecration. While short-lived during the life of Joseph Smith, the United...
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    United Effort Plan (category Mormonism and law)
    means of living the traditional Latter Day Saint doctrine of the "Law of Consecration". This involved donating land, homes and businesses into a single...
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