Celestial marriage (also called the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage, Eternal Marriage, Temple Marriage) is a doctrine that marriage can last forever...

individuals who are sealed in celestial marriage to a spouse will be permitted to enter into the highest degree of celestial glory. These individuals will...

teaches that in addition to civil marriage, which ends at death, a man and woman can enter into a celestial marriage, performed in a temple by priesthood...

Church.) A celestial marriage is considered a requirement for exaltation. In some countries, celestial marriages can be recognized as civil marriages; in other...

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married...

confirmation, the sacrament, priesthood ordination, endowment and celestial marriage. Members of the church, known as Latter-day Saints or informally as...

practice of plural marriage, it still believes and teaches that a celestial marriage contracted between a single unmarried man and a single unmarried woman...

select from the Old Bible scriptures as pertained to polygamy, or celestial marriage, to write it in pamphlet form, and to advocate that doctrine. This...

Smith wrote that people who break the "New and Everlasting Covenant" (Celestial marriage) would be "destroyed in the flesh" and be punished until they received...

Smith, George D. (2010) [2008]. Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" (2nd ed.). Signature Books. ISBN 978-1-56085-207-0. LCCN 2010032062...

had also given three of his own daughters away in "spiritual" or "celestial" marriage, two of them at 15 and one at 14, to older men. The youngest of the...

everlasting covenant (also called "celestial marriage") in order to be exalted in heaven after death and that such celestial marriage, perpetuated across generations...

An April 1561 broadsheet by Hans Glaser described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or unidentified flying objects (UFO) above Nuremberg (then a...

Endowment, including washing and anointing; Celestial marriage;: 164  The endowment and celestial marriage take place in temples. Latter-day Saints are...

American Mormon fundamentalist in Utah who was a practitioner of plural marriage. After a high-profile trial, Green was convicted by the state of Utah on...

Church members who choose to serve as missionaries or participate in a celestial marriage in a temple must first complete the first endowment ceremony. The...

Auseklis is a Latvian god, a stellar deity that represents a celestial body, but possibly not the same as Venus (Rīta zvaigzne) - the first "star" (how...

Spiritual marriage may refer to: Bahá'í marriage Celestial marriage, a doctrine of Mormonism and Swedenborgianism Josephite marriage, a Christian form...

Archive. Smith, George D. (2008). Nauvoo Polygamy: "…But We Called It Celestial Marriage". Salt Lake City: Signature Books. ISBN 978-1560852018. Tullidge,...

The church also rejects the doctrines of baptism for the dead and celestial marriage promulgated by the Utah-based LDS Church, as well as the Doctrine...

patriarchal order found in Mormonism and is especially connected with celestial marriage. In the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, The Church of Jesus...

out of town" to allow the "worthy" men of the community to live plural marriage by adding new, younger wives. More recently, in the mid-1990s, a Colorado...

only by outsiders. They also refer to plural marriage generically as "the Principle", "celestial marriage", "the New and Everlasting Covenant", or "the...

afterlife. Mainstream Mormons, by contrast, believe that a single Celestial marriage is necessary for exaltation. In distinction with the LDS Church, Mormon...

: 194  dancing, and touch outside marriage and masturbation. Though celestial marriage is the only form of marriage recognized as a sacrament, the church...

One of the key qualifications for exaltation is being united in a celestial marriage to an opposite-sex partner via the ordinance of sealing, either in...

already living in polygamous marriages to convert and join it without having to renounce their multiple marriages. The Celestial Church of Christ, another...

temples. Celestial marriage is open to one man and one woman at a time, but a man whose spouse has died may enter a second celestial marriage. Apart from...

Prize for Fiction. The novel focuses on the marriage of a middle-class African-American couple, Celestial and Roy, who live in Atlanta, Georgia. Their...

the law of adoption, and celestial marriage. In addition to heterosexual marriage, the church also practiced same-sex marriage. The church believed in...