427: A Visual History of the Community of Christ (RLDS) Pt. 2: Aftermath of the Succession Crisis, 1844-1860

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 July 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2, John Hamer talks about the pivotal period from 1844-1860, when different Latter Day Saints came up with different solutions for how to remain faithful to their religion in the wake of the founder’s death. John conceptually divides successor churches into three categories: (1) Those who sought to "purify" the church and go back to an earlier form of Mormonism, (2) those who sought to "preserve" the church as it existed in 1844, and (3) those who wanted to continue to "innovate" by having a new prophet ever revealing new doctrine and practices on the model of the founder. John describes how polygamy continued to be the main point of contention and how the organizations of most of Brigham Young’s rivals had faltered by 1860.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much.
0:28.9	Hello and welcome back.
0:29.9	To an in-depth discussion of the history of the Community of Christ or the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
0:37.2	Letters, Saints as it was once called.
0:38.9	It's also a history of the LDS Church, all with the wonderful and inspiring John Hamer.
0:44.5	So welcome back, John.
0:45.5	Hi, John.
0:46.5	Thanks.
0:47.5	So we left off.
0:49.0	We covered sort of the founding of the original Church, the Joseph Founded, which we learned wasn't actually called the Church of
0:57.4	Jesus Christ of Letters, Saints, but it's called the Church of Christ.
1:00.9	We went from sort of that founding of the Church through the succession, the original succession crisis.
1:07.2	I'll call it, which was the showdown between Sydney, Rigdon, and Brigham Young.
1:13.2	So where do we take off?
1:14.6	Where do we take up from there?
1:17.4	So next, if we go to this next diagram, I'm having here like kind of like a big circle, which is kind of representing the whole church.
1:27.4	And then I'll remind our listeners that this is also on YouTube.
1:31.2	So if you're not watching this on YouTube, we have some wonderful visuals.
1:34.9	You can check out on YouTube, but you can listen in audio form as well.
1:38.7	So go ahead and continue, John.
1:40.0	And whether or not they can see it, I could just say we can vision a big circle that is that might represent that church as a whole,
1:47.7	because we tend to ignore the broader church whenever we tell church history.
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