LEADER 02912nam 22004573u 450 001 9910458287903321 005 20210111131113.0 010 $a0-19-934815-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001302382 035 $a(EBL)1692211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1692211 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001302382 100 $a20140526d2014|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aStanding Apart$b[electronic resource] $eMormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-934814-6 311 $a1-306-79772-1 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a6 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 330 $aLatter-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 606 $aChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines 606 $aGreat Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines. 615 4$aGreat Apostasy (Mormon doctrine). 676 $a230.93 676 $a230/.93 676 $a289.3 700 $aWilcox$b Miranda$0953505 701 $aYoung$b John D$013102 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458287903321 996 $aStanding Apart$92156022 997 $aUNINA