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Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
Disciples of Christ minister Sidney Rigdon was one of the most significant early converts to Mormonism. His education proved indispensible to Joseph Smith, as together they updated the Bible, received revelations, drafted the Lectures on Faith, dedicated the first temple, and formalized LDS theology. But Rigdon's unstable temperament made him an ultimately unreliable couns...more
Paperback, 493 pages
Published
November 30th 2005
by Signature Books
(first published 1994)
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While giving this book a 5 star rating I am not recommending it to my list of goodfriends on goodreads. It is however an excellent work for those who are interested in the early years of the Latter Day Saints. The author is an LDS scholar and this book is documented from Journals, letters, etc., contained in the Historical Department of the LDS church in Salt Lake City.
It is not a book that will make current Mormon's proud of their founding as it is not a whitewash of Joseph Smit...more
It is not a book that will make current Mormon's proud of their founding as it is not a whitewash of Joseph Smit...more
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Good book that fills some gaps in Mormon history not covered in other books.
This book was Horrible! I bought in Nauvoo and was really excited to read it, it turned out to be so Anti-Mormon! They painted Sideny as a crazed lunatic who with the help of Joseph Smith helped to orchestrate Mormonism. Thier was so many untruths and it was really very upsetting. It was written by a "skeptical mormon" but was not very fair at all. I sent an email to Latter-Day Harvest letting them know so that they could take it off thier shelves. I only read about half and I co...more
It was interesting to see Sidney's contributions, and also to see how he interacted with Joseph Smith. It is apparent that he is devalued in the LDS church. It was sad to me to see how he ended up alone without support, despite his big contributions to mormonism.
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