Mormon Thunder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mormon Thunder write by Gene A. Sessions. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Mormon Thunder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.” It was “an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.” Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant’s ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and ’50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant’s voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of “Mormon Thunder” rolls again in “a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.”
Mormon Thunder
Mormon Thunder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mormon Thunder write by Gene Allred Sessions. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Mormon Thunder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thunder from the Right
Thunder from the Right - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thunder from the Right write by Matthew L Harris. This book was released on 2019-03-02. Thunder from the Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ezra Taft Benson's ultra-conservative vision made him one of the most polarizing leaders in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His willingness to mix religion with extreme right-wing politics troubled many. Yet his fierce defense of the traditional family, unabashed love of country, and deep knowledge of the faith endeared him to millions. In Thunder from the Right, a group of veteran Mormon scholars probe aspects of Benson's extraordinary life. Topics include: how Benson's views influenced his actions as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration; his dedication to the conservative movement, from alliances with Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society to his condemnation of the civil rights movement as a communist front; how his concept of the principal of free agency became central to Mormon theology; his advocacy of traditional gender roles as a counterbalance to liberalism; and the events and implications of Benson's term as Church president. Contributors: Gary James Bergera, Matthew Bowman, Newell G. Bringhurst, Brian Q. Cannon, Robert A. Goldberg, Matthew L. Harris, J. B. Haws, and Andrea G. Radke-Moss
Blood of the Prophets
Blood of the Prophets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood of the Prophets write by Will Bagley. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Blood of the Prophets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.
Colonel Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883
Colonel Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonel Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883 write by David J. Whittaker. This book was released on 2010. Colonel Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly four decades, Thomas L. Kane, although not a particularly religious man himself, honorably defended the Mormons on the national stage and remained a confident of Brigham Young throughout his life. This richly illustrated volume examines Kane and his relationship with the Mormons from social, political, and religious angles.
