Ep 195 – King Follett Discourse pt. 3 A Legend that Never Dies

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, now that we know the man behind the discourse, let’s finally discuss the King Follett Discourse. This is widely known as one of Joseph Smith’s greatest theological sermons culminating 14 years of an evolving and expanding doctrine. From the days of early Mormonism, based on the Book of Mormon and basic Protestant tenets, Joseph Smith had vacuumed up and acquired many fields of philosophy and religious studies and harmonized them with his own. The King Follett Discourse articulated the deepest points of his latest version of Mormon doctrine and taught mysteries which we kept secret from most by 1844. The long-term impact of this discourse has set Mormon doctrine into a class of its own and generated decades of speculative theology from generations of Mormon scholars and historians.

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King Follett Discourse source material
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/1844/7Apr44.html
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-7-april-1844-as-reported-by-times-and-seasons/1#full-transcript

KFD: A Newly Amalgamated Text
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/king-follett-discourse-newly-amalgamated-text

FAIRMormon KFD talk
https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2004/the-king-follett-discourse-in-the-light-of-ancient-and-medieval-jewish-and-christian-beliefs

Joseph Smith’s Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43040755?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

The Queen Follett Discourse
https://medium.com/@j_n_foster/the-queen-follet-discourse-1673b4e879b2

Joseph Smith and the Kabbalah
http://gnosis.org/jskabb3.htm

Worlds Without End: The Cosmological Theodicy of Brigham Young by James Chase Kirkham
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2274&context=etd

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0:00.0	Hey, listeners, since we're talking fiction today in the form of Mormon theology, I thought you all might be interested in helping generate some fiction of our own.
0:09.9	So stick around after the main segment to hear about a new Patreon goal blending history and fiction in a Mormon history themed at Dungeons and Dragons campaign run by yours truly.
0:21.0	Details will follow our thorough deconstruction of the Kingfellate discourse.
0:25.4	Thanks, everybody.
0:27.1	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:28.4	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:30.0	I am Christopher Smith.
0:31.5	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:33.0	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:35.9	The Serial Mormon History Podcast.
0:39.7	We've now discussed the man behind the discourse with a lot of help from the biography of King Follett.
0:47.9	And the discourse is, of course, by the same name.
0:50.2	So now we can finally discuss the King Follett discourse itself. What is it? Why is it important?
0:57.5	What does it mean? What impact has it had on Mormon theology?
1:01.9	The King Follett discourse was a sermon that Joseph Smith gave at the funeral of King Follett.
1:08.6	Just like many pastors or religious leaders, Joe used the opportunity of
1:12.5	King Fulet's death to preach and to sermonize the captive audience. When this sermon was given,
1:18.9	Joseph Smith was one month away from his 14th anniversary as a religious leader. He spent those
1:24.5	14 years developing a unique and an engaging theology, creating new scriptures,
1:29.5	holding classes of theological instruction, fabricating his own history, and just generally
1:36.3	evolving Mormonism to stand out from its Protestant contemporaries, or, you know, market
1:41.6	competitors, if you want to call it that. And we don't
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