I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. This is

Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History Podcast. This is a podcast about the history of a religion.

Right.

We spend most of our time discussing the movements and wiles of Joseph Smith and other early

Mormon leaders, but our focus rarely shifts to actual doctrine and theology of early

Mormonism unless the specific doctrine

is inextricably tied to a subject of history that we're discussing.

There are plenty of Mormon theology and doctrine podcasts out there, one of which I co-host

my book of Mormon, but that's not the purpose of this podcast.

This is a history podcast, right?

It's surprising how much you can discuss early

Mormonism without discussing the actual religious aspect when we simply focus on the history

itself. Well, today is one of those days where our historical timeline requires examination

of Mormon doctrine and theology. We're going to spend this episode discussing the text

of Doctrine and Covenants,

Section 132. What is it? How did it come to be? When was it canonized as part of Mormon

doctrine? What is the content of 132 that makes it so incredibly controversial?

Today's show will preface next week's, the historical context from which Section 132 was birthed.

So this will be a two-part series because it's just that interesting and dense.

So let's start at the groundwork here.

If you aren't familiar with Doctrine and Covenants and what that is, well, the Doctrine and Covenants is one of four books of

scripture that Mormonism holds, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I should say,

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