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The Pearl of Greatest Price - Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture (Hardcover)
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The Pearl of Greatest Price - Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture (Hardcover)
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The Pearl of Greatest Price narrates the history of Mormonism's
fourth volume of scripture, canonized in 1880. The authors track
its predecessors, describe its several components, and assess their
theological significance within the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Four principal sections are discussed, along
with attendant controversies associated with each. The Book of
Moses purports to be a Mosaic narrative missing from the biblical
version of Genesis. Too little treated in the scholarship on
Mormonism, these chapters, produced only months after the Book of
Mormon was published, actually contain the theological nucleus of
Latter-day Saint doctrines as well as a virtual template for the
Restoration Joseph Smith was to effect. In The Pearl of Greatest
Price, the author covers three principal parts that are the focus
of many of the controversies engulfing Mormonism today. These parts
are The Book of Abraham, The Book of Moses, and The Joseph Smith
History. Most controversial of all is the Book of Abraham, a
production that arose out of a group of papyri Smith acquired,
along with four mummies, in 1835. Most of the papyri disappeared in
the great Chicago Fire, but surviving fragments have been
identified as Egyptian funerary documents. This has created one of
the most serious challenges to Smith's prophetic claims the LDS
church has faced. LDS scholars, however, have developed several
frameworks for vindicating the inspiration of the resulting
narrative and Smith's calling as a prophet. The author attempts to
make sense of Smith's several, at times divergent, accounts of his
First Vision, one of which is canonized as scripture. He also
assesses the creedal nature of Smith's "Articles of Faith," in the
context of his professed anti-creedalism. In sum, this study
chronicles the volume's historical legacy and theological
indispensability to the Latter-day Saint tradition, as well as the
reasons for its resilience and future prospects in the face of
daunting challenges.
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