1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458287903321

Autore

Wilcox Miranda

Titolo

Standing Apart [[electronic resource] ] : Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-19-934815-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungJohn D

Disciplina

230.93

230/.93

289.3

Soggetti

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines

Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Standing Apart; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Notes on Sources; Standing Apart; Introduction; PART ONEContextualizing the LDS Great Apostasy Narrative; 1 Historical Periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy Narrative; 2 "Except among that Portion of Mankind"; 3 James Talmage, B. H. Roberts, and Confessional History in a Secular Age; 4 Narrating Apostasy and the LDS Quest for Identity; PART TWORenarrating the Apostasy: New Approaches; 5 Competing Histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint Tradition

6 Latter-day Saint Perceptions of Jewish Apostasy in the Time of Jesus7 Purity and Parallels; 8 Rereading the Council of Nicaea and Its Creed; 9 Apostasy's Ancestors; 10 "Complexity and Richness"; 11 King Ratbod's Dilemma; 12 Covenantal Pluralism in Mormonism and Islam; 13 Long Narratives; Epilogue; AppendixStatement of the First Presidency Regarding God's Love for All Mankind; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Latter-day Saints have a paradoxical relationship to the past; even as they invest their own history with sacred meaning, celebrating the restoration of ancient truths and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, they repudiate the eighteen centuries of Christianity that preceded the



founding of their church as apostate distortions of the truth. Since the early days of Mormonism, Latter-day Saints have used the paradigm of apostasy and restoration in their narratives about the origin of their church. This has generated a powerful and enduring binary of categorization that has profoundly impacte

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910588297503321

Titolo

Medieval francophone literary culture outside France : studies in the moving word / edited by Nicola Morato and Dirk Schoenaers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Turnhout, : Brepols, 2018

ISBN

9782503554440

Descrizione fisica

XV, 571 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Medieval texts and cultures of northern Europe ; 28

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

840.9001 MORN 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000098219707536

Autore

Chambers, J. K.

Titolo

Sociolinguistic Theory : Linguistic Variation and its Social Significance / J.K. Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Cambridge : Blackwell, c1995

ISBN

0631183264

Descrizione fisica

XIX, 284 p. ; 24 cm.

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Sociolinguistica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807989003321

Autore

Tatum W. Barnes

Titolo

Jesus : a brief history / / W. Barnes Tatum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009

2009

ISBN

1444311034

9781444311037

9781444311044

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

Classificazione

192.8

232.09

Disciplina

232.09

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-249) and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.