Ep 193 – King Follett pt. 1 The Man
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we begin our series about King Follett and the discourse named after him. Who is he? What discourse did he write? Why does every Mormon know the name but not the guy? Very little documentation of his life survives to this day, however, fragmentary evidence has been pieced together to form a biography of King Follett which follows him through the life and times of the Follett family in the early Mormon church under Joseph Smith’s leadership. This series will discuss the man behind the discourse and the theological treatise given at his funeral known as “The King Follett Discourse”. Part one examines the lives of the Folletts from birth, to joining the church, to their life in Missouri, ending with King Follett locked in a Missouri jail while his family made the trip to Quincy, Illinois through the winter of 1838-39.
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The Man Behind the Discourse: The Biography of King Follett by Joann Follett Mortensen
https://gregkofford.com/products/the-man-behind-the-discourse
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| 0:00.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm Kara Santa Maria. |
| 0:04.1 | I am Christopher Smith. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Naked Mormonism. |
| 0:10.1 | The Serial Mormon History podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | Few people who know anything about Mormonism haven't heard of or read the King Follett discourse. |
| 0:25.8 | What is it? What does it mean? Is it King Follett or King Follett? Well, to put it simply, |
| 0:31.9 | the King Follett discourse is one of Joe's final sermons right before his death. It marked the culmination of many |
| 0:39.1 | aspects of his 14-year evolving theology. Aspects of Mormon Christian theology that are |
| 0:45.5 | uniquely Mormon are found only within the King Follett discourse when absent from Joe's |
| 0:51.6 | revelations and scriptures. God once being a human, infants on thrones, |
| 0:56.0 | philosophies of men mingled with scripture, and plenty more deeper levels of Mormon theology |
| 1:00.3 | are only present in the King Follett discourse. Now, if you've listened to this show before, |
| 1:05.9 | you know that I like to take my sweet time with big issues in Mormon history. Now, who would have thought that |
| 1:11.5 | John C. Reckett Bennett could turn into a 10-part series or that Mark Hoffman needed over eight |
| 1:16.2 | hours of airtime to even begin to scratch the surface? We've done nearly 13 and a half hours on |
| 1:21.6 | just the topic of psychedelics and early Mormonism. So, yeah, I like to take my time on stuff, |
| 1:26.3 | because understanding the history living |
| 1:29.0 | at the bedrock upon which the correlated believing narrative and the so-called anti-Mormon |
| 1:35.6 | popular history are built upon takes time and diligence to exhume. So we're going to take our |
| 1:42.1 | time with King Follett. The man, and the discourse. And surprisingly, |
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