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Standing Apart - Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy (Hardcover)
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Standing Apart - Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy (Hardcover)
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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.
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