Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Divergent Paths of the Restoration
Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Divergent Paths of the Restoration
Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560854012
Category : Church of the First Born (Morrisites)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement
Author: Steven L ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560854555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God's restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen circumstances would help to spawn hundreds of off-shoots and competing denominations--all claiming their origins in a movement born and sustained originally by Smith and Sidney Rigdon. Many of these groups have endured and boast multiple congregations of believers in many countries; others came and went quickly and have long since been forgotten. Some have survived but have only appealed to a handful of believers. Steven L Shields has for decades chronicled the various origins and paths of all known Restoration movements. This fifth edition of his encyclopedic study, offered as an ebook, includes recent groups born as internet communities. That so many groups and individuals have been unsatisfied with the more mainstream Mormon churches, yet cling to tenets of the Smith-Rigdon movement, speaks to the strengths of the restoration concept and the naïve view that one denomination can successfully meet all the needs of believers.
Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement
Author: Steven L ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560854562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God's restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen circumstances would help to spawn hundreds of off-shoots and competing denominations--all claiming their origins in a movement born and sustained originally by Smith and Sidney Rigdon. Many of these groups have endured and boast multiple congregations of believers in many countries; others came and went quickly and have long since been forgotten. Some have survived but have only appealed to a handful of believers. Steven L Shields has for decades chronicled the various origins and paths of all known Restoration movements. This fifth edition of his encyclopedic study, offered as an ebook, includes recent groups born as internet communities. That so many groups and individuals have been unsatisfied with the more mainstream Mormon churches, yet cling to tenets of the Smith-Rigdon movement, speaks to the strengths of the restoration concept and the naïve view that one denomination can successfully meet all the needs of believers.
Divergent Paths
Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780830905690
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The fourth edition of this book provides insight into the histories and theologies of the varied churches within the Restoration movement.
Divergent Paths of the Restoration
Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780941214483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Timothy MillerPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815627753
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.
The Cultic Milieu
Author: Jeffrey KaplanPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759102040
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy, violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many other diverse groups came together to protest what they saw as the unfair power of a nondemocratic elite. But how did such strange bedfellows come together? And can their unity continue? In 1972--another period of social upheaval--sociologist Colin Campbell posited a "cultic milieu": An underground region where true seekers test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between loosely organized groups, but the larger milieu persists in opposition to the dominant culture. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow find Campbell's theory especially useful in coming to grips with the varied oppositional groups of today. While the issues differ, current subcultures often behave in similar ways to deviant groups of the past. The Cultic Milieu brings together scholars looking at racial, religious and environmental oppositional groups as well as looking at the watchdog groups that oppose these groups in turn. While providing fascinating information on their own subjects, each essay contributes to a larger understanding of our present-day cultic milieu. For classes in the social sciences or religious studies, The Cultic Milieu offers a novel way to look at the interactions and ideas of those who fight against the powerful in our global age.
Steve Shields on Divergent Paths
Author: Gospel Tangents InterviewPublisher:
ISBN: 9781793032027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
I'm excited to introduce Steven Shields. He has written several editions of a book, Divergent Paths of the Restoration. We are going to talk about some of the up to 500 expressions of Mormon Church, or maybe not necessarily the Mormon Church, but just groups affiliated with Mormonism that trace their founding back to Joseph Smith. It's going to be a really fun conversation. We're probably going to talk about some groups you've never heard of that all tie back to Joseph Smith, as well as Steve's personal spiritual journey, and a little bit on the Succession Crisis. It's going to be a really fun conversation.
Divergent Paths of the Restoration
Author: Steven L. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description