Description

This book examines the historical development of Mormon theology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Irving Hexham

Introduction: Mormonism Yesterday and Today

1. Ye Mountains Roll Down Your Thunder
   Mormonism from Monotheism to Cosmic Henotheism
2. Out of the Ground a Voice Speaks
   The Book of Mormon in Its Nineteenth-Century Religious Context
3. Knowing the Only True God
   The Revelations of Moses, the Joseph Smith Translation, and the Rewriting of Genesis
4. Among the School of the Prophets in Ohio
   Teachings from the Lectures of Faith
5. In the Grand Council of the Gods
   Redacting the Writings of Abraham
6. If Any Man Lack Wisdom
   The First Vision and the Mormon Quest for Legitimization
7. And Ye Shall Be Gods
   Placing the King Follet Discourse in Its Historical Perspective
8. Adam Our Father and Our God
   Doctrinal Development During the Early Utah Period
9. Unity From Diversity
   Apostle James E. Talmage and the Birth of Mormonism