Standing Apart
Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
Published on 5. June 2014
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-19-934813-8 (ISBN)
Description
Latter-day Saints have a paradoxical relationship to the past; even as they invest their own history with sacred meaning, celebrating the restoration of ancient truths and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, they repudiate the eighteen centuries of Christianity preceding the founding of their church as apostate distortions of the truth. Since the early days of Mormonism, Latter-day Saints (LDS) have used the paradigm of apostasy and restoration in their narratives about the origin of their church. This has generated a powerful and enduring binary of categorization that has profoundly impacted Mormon self-perception and relations with others. Standing Apart explores how the idea of apostasy has functioned as a category to mark, define, and set apart "the other" in Mormon historical consciousness and in the construction of Mormon narrative identity. The volume's fifteen contributors trace the development of LDS narratives of apostasy within the context of both Mormon history and American Protestant historiography. They suggest ways in which these narratives might be reformulated to engage with the past, as well as offering new models for interfaith relations. This volume provides a novel approach for understanding and resolving some of the challenges the LDS church faces in the twenty-first century.
Reviews / Votes
In my estimation, Standing Apart is the most important Mormon studies book since Bushman s Rough Stone Rolling...It deserves to be engaged by Mormons but will also be of interest to scholars of religion more broadly who value sensitive but critical interreligious engagement. I give Standing Apart my highest recommendation. * Blair Hodges, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-934813-8 (9780199348138)
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Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
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Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy
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Persons
Miranda Wilcox is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She researches Anglo-Saxon religious culture and holds an MMS and Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame.
John D. Young is Assistant Professor of History at Flagler College. His research interests lie in the religious history of the high Middle Ages: particularly monasticism, Jewish-Christian relations, and ecclesiastical power. He holds an MMS and Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame.
John D. Young is Assistant Professor of History at Flagler College. His research interests lie in the religious history of the high Middle Ages: particularly monasticism, Jewish-Christian relations, and ecclesiastical power. He holds an MMS and Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Content
Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Abbreviations and Notes on Sources ; Introduction, Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young ; PART I CONTEXTUALIZING THE LDS GREAT APOSTASY NARRATIVE ; Ch. 1 Historical Periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy Narrative, Eric R Dursteler ; Ch. 2 "Except among that Portion of Mankind": Early Mormon Conceptions of the Apostasy, Christopher C. Jones and Stephen J. Fleming ; Ch. 3 James Talmage, B.H. Roberts, and Confessional History in a Secular Age, Matthew Bowman ; Ch. 4 Narrating Apostasy and the LDS Quest for Identity, Miranda Wilcox ; PART II RE-NARRATING THE APOSTASY: NEW APPROACHES ; Ch. 5 Competing Histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Cory D. Crawford ; Ch. 6 Latter-day Saint Perceptions of Jewish Apostasy at the Time of Jesus, Matthew J. Grey ; Ch. 7 Purity and Parallels: Constructing the Apostasy Narrative of Early Christianity, Taylor G. Petrey ; Ch. 8 Rereading the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, Lincoln H. Blumell ; Ch. 9 Apostasy's Ancestors: Anti-Arian and Anti-Mormon Discourse in the Struggle for Christianity, Ariel Bybee Laughton ; Ch. 10 "Complexity and Richness": Re-envisioning the Middle Ages for Mormon Historical Narratives, Spencer E. Young ; Ch. 11 King Ratbod's Dilemma: Apostasy and Restoration in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries, Jonathan Green ; Ch. 12 Covenantal Pluralism in the Qur'an: Alternatives to the Binary Logic of Apostasy, David D. Peck ; Ch. 13 Long Narratives: Towards a New Mormon Understanding of Apostasy, John D. Young ; Epilogue: "We have only the Old Thing": Rethinking Mormon Restoration, Terryl Givens ; Appendix: First Presidency Statement on God's Love for All Mankind ; Index