Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition
by Jan Shipps
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"Without fully and consciously realizing that they were doing so, the followers of Jesus established a new religious tradition. This book tells the story of yet another assembly of saints whose history, I believe, is in many respects analogous to the history of those early Christians who thought at first that they had found the only proper way to be Jews. Mormonism started to grow away from traditional Christianity almost immediately upon coming into existence. It began as a movement that show more understood itself as Christian, but. . . these nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints (as they came to be called) embarked on a path that led to developments that now distinguish their tradition from the Christian tradition as surely as early Christianity was distinguished from its Hebraic context."--From the preface show lessTags
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Jan Shipps is a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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- Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History
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- 289.3 — Religion Christian denominations Other denominations and sects Mormonism
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- BX8611 .S49 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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