• In Mormonism, revelation is communication from God to man. Latter Day Saints teach that the Latter Day Saint movement began with a revelation from God...
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    The 1978 Revelation on Priesthood was an announcement by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that reversed a long-standing...
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    Mormonism is the theology and religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New...
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  • Continuous revelation or continuing revelation is a theological belief or position that God continues to reveal divine principles or commandments to humanity...
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  • Utah v. Lafferty (category Revelation in Mormonism)
    result of a divine revelation. Ron Lafferty and his younger brother Dan were charged for the throat-slashing homicides of their sister-in-law Brenda Wright...
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    Benjamin E. Park (May 14, 2020). "How An 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses A Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism". Religion Dispatches. Doctrine and Covenants –...
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    of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine...
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    In the Mormon fundamentalist movement, the 1886 Revelation is the text of a revelation said to have been received by John Taylor, third President of the...
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  • (informally known as "Mormons") believe in continuing revelation and an open canon. Many of the revelations the church's leaders have received have achieved...
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    Word of Wisdom (Latter Day Saints) (category Revelation in Mormonism)
    as a revelation from the Christian God on was dictated on February 27, 1833. The Word of Wisdom was first published as a stand-alone broadsheet in December...
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  • Under the Banner of Heaven (category Works about polygamy in Mormonism)
    had received a revelation to kill Brenda and Erica. After opening with the Lafferty case, Krakauer explores the history of Mormonism, starting with the...
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    Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? is a 1963 book by Jerald and Sandra Tanner that is critical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)...
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  • Progressive revelation is a core teaching in the Baháʼí Faith that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time...
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  • their disenchantment with Mormonism began when Joseph Smith stopped using his seer stone as an instrument of revelation." In November 1837, the Kirtland...
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  • Articles of the Church of Christ (category Revelation in Mormonism)
    "Articles of the Church of Christ" was an 1829 revelation purportedly given by God to Oliver Cowdery in the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement...
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  • Latter Day Saint movement, the relationship between Black people and Mormonism has included enslavement, exclusion and inclusion, and official and unofficial...
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    Mormonism and Nicene Christianity (often called mainstream Christianity) have a complex theological, historical, and sociological relationship. Mormons...
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    direct Christ's church. Mormonism does not characterize itself as a Protestant religion, as Smith taught that he had received revelation direct from Christ...
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  • Christian God through a prophet. Latter Day Saint Movement Mormonism Revelation in Mormonism Standard works Account of John Book of Commandments Word of...
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    In orthodox Mormonism, the term God generally refers to the biblical God the Father, whom Latter Day Saints also refer to as Elohim or Heavenly Father...
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    Thomas Aquinas believed in two types of individual revelation from God, general revelation and special revelation. In general revelation, God reveals himself...
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    Polygamy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or plural marriage, is generally believed to have originated with the founder of Mormonism, Joseph...
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  • Islam and Mormonism have been compared to one another since the earliest origins of the latter in the nineteenth century, sometimes by detractors of one...
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    Anti-Mormonism includes criticism of and opposition to the adherents, institutions, and beliefs of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement as a whole...
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    This is a chronology of Mormonism. In the late 1820s, Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, announced that an angel had given him a...
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    published in the Latter Day Saint newspaper Times and Seasons. It is a concise listing of the thirteen fundamental doctrines of Mormonism. Most Latter...
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    Master Mahan (category Mormonism and Freemasonry)
    1998, p. 147–148, 208–210 Arbaugh, George Bartholomew (1932), Revelation in Mormonism: Its Character and Changing Forms, Chicago: University of Chicago...
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    Book of Commandments (category Revelation in Mormonism)
    - article from semi-official Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Melvin J. Petersen, "Preparing Early Revelations for Publication", Ensign, February 1985 - sympathetic...
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  • a belief in Mormonism that after death some people will reach the highest level of salvation in the celestial kingdom and eternally live in God's presence...
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  • the American Indians to Mormonism.: 79  They viewed themselves as repentant Gentiles that would assist the American Indians in building the New Jerusalem...
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