Restoration History

An Appraisal of Manchester as Location for the Organization of the Church

Conversion of Sidney Rigdon

Rise and Progress of the Church of Christ

1831 Letters of Ezra Booth

1832 Missionary Teachings


Historical Inquiry on Mormon Theology

The Earliest Mormon Concept of God by Dan Vogel

Importance of Adam in Mormon Theology

Discourse by President Brigham Young on 8 October 1854

Statement of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles, 30 June 1916

Lorenzo Snow's Couplet: "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be": "No functioning place in present-day Mormon doctrine?" A Response to Richard Mouw
By Ronald V. Huggins. From the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49 (September 2006):549-68. Used by permission of author. This is a pdf file.


Mormon Origins

Web Site on Mormon Origins - H. Michael Marquardt

Palmyra Revival

Examination of Joseph Smith (March 1826)

First Vision of Joseph Smith, Jr.
1832 Account
1835 Account
1838-39 Account

Second Vision of Joseph Smith, Jr.
1832 Account
1835 Account
1838-39 Account

Willard Chase Affidavit Concerning Seer Stone


Problems in Mormon Texts by LaMar Petersen

The Bible and Mormonism by Rodger I. Anderson


Essays on Mormon History -

Missouri:

A Chronology of Danite Meetings in Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri July to September 1838 by John E. Thompson

The Far West Dissenters and the Gamblers at Vicksburg: An Examination of the Documentary Evidence and Historical Context of Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon by John E. Thompson

"Where Cain Killed Able": Latter-day Saint Views on the Mormon Surrender of Far West and Their Forced Expulsion from the State of Missouri by Michael S. Riggs


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