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Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until
his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced
unparalleled growth - nearly tripling in total membership - and
becoming a significant presence throughout the world.
The first book to draw upon the David O. McKay Papers at the J.
Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, in addition to
some two hundred interviews conducted by the authors, David O.
McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism focuses primarily on the
years of McKay's presidency. During some of the most turbulent
times in American and world history, McKay navigated the church
through uncharted waters as it faced the challenges of worldwide
growth in an age of communism, the civil rights movement, and
ecumenism. Gregory Prince and Robert Wright have compiled a
thorough history of the presidency of a much-loved prophet who left
a lasting legacy within the LDS Church.
Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil
rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed
the Bible told them so. These white Christians entered the battle
certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights
movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success,
fundamentally transformed American society. But this victory did
little to change southern white evangelicals' theological
commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their
segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white
evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still
controlled-churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and
secondary schools-and fought on. Focusing on the case of South
Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite suffering
defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle
for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a
segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected
God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their
sincere belief that God desired segregation and their reluctance to
give voice to such ideas for fear of being perceived as bigoted or
intolerant, by the late 1960s southern white evangelicals embraced
the rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as
measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social
standing. This strategy set southern white evangelicals on an
alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead.
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This book provides a comprehensive explanation of how the Mormons
have transformed from a hated and persecuted fringe group to a
well-established world religion with viable candidates for all
levels of American government. The Mormon tradition is unfamiliar
and mysterious to most Americans outside of the religion, and
understandably generates much curiosity. Mormons in American
Politics: From Persecution to Power provides an intellectual
foundation of Mormon development and emergence in politics,
comprehensively examining significant issues and developments from
historical, theological, cultural, and modern perspectives. The
work analyzes diverse, contemporary topics including Mormons in
popular culture, Mormon understandings of the Constitution, the
Mormon welfare program, Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage, and
the global expansion of Mormonism. The book is ideal for scholars
and students of American politics, history, and culture; Mormon
studies; religious studies; and religion and politics; as well as
general readers who are interested in Mormon religion and culture
or the rise of Mormon figures in mainstream American politics.
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Paula Johnson
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""Opening Scripture" provides a thorough and original account of
ministerial and lay strategies for interpreting Scripture in the
Massachusetts Bay. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast
literature and history of the period, Lisa Gordis moves deftly
through discussions of major figures and events. This is a
significant intervention in the study of Puritan New
England."--Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
What role did the Bible really play in Puritan New England? Many
have treated it as a blunt instrument used to cudgel dissenters
into submission, but Lisa M. Gordis reveals instead that Puritan
readings of the Bible showed great complexity and literary
sophistication--so much complexity, in fact, that controversies
over biblical interpretation threatened to tear Puritan society
apart.
Drawing on Puritan preaching manuals and sermons as well as the
texts of early religious controversies, Gordis argues that Puritan
ministers did not expect to impose their views on their
congregations. Instead they believed that interpretive consensus
would emerge from the process of reading the Bible, with the Holy
Spirit assisting readers to understand God's will. Treating the
conflict over Roger Williams, the Antinomian Controversy, and the
reluctant compromises of the Halfway Covenant as symptoms of a
crisis that was as much literary as it was social or spiritual,
"Opening Scripture" explores the profound consequences of Puritan
negotiations over biblical interpretation for New England's
literature and history.
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