The Essential Brigham Young (CLASSICS IN MORMON THOUGHT SERIES)

Brigham Young

ISBN 10: 1560850108 / ISBN 13: 9781560850106

Editore: Signature Books, 1992

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Riassunto:

After converting to Mormonism in 1832, Brigham Young (1801-77) quickly rose to prominence and three years later was called to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. He personally directed the highly successful 1839 proselyting mission to Great Britain and was appointed president of the Twelve the following year. In 1846-47 he oversaw the epic colonization of the intermountain west.
Self-educated and preoccupied with the pressing business of his widespread empire, Young rarely found time to read. But he delivered hundreds of lively extemporaneous sermons blending common sense with theological speculation. His homespun treatises carried an immediacy absent from the philosophically oriented studies of his colleague Orson Pratt. At the same time, Young's speeches could be unfocused and contradictory.
Several of his more controversial teachings--Adam-as-God, divine omniscience, and blood atonement--have sparked considerable debate since they were first uttered more than one hundred years ago. "Will you love your brothers and sisters likewise," he once asked, "when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?"

Informazioni sull?autore:

 Eugene E. Campbell was a professor of history at Brigham Young University until his death in 1986. He was the author of Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869, co-author of three works—Fort Bridger: Island in the Wilderness, Fort Supply: Brigham Young’s Green River Experiment, and Hugh B. Brown: His Life and Thought—and the co-editor of Utah’s History, contributor to The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past, as well as author of the foreword to The Essential Brigham Young. He was a founding member and early president of the Mormon History Association.

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Titolo: The Essential Brigham Young (CLASSICS IN ...
Casa editrice: Signature Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
Legatura: Hardcover
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