Signature Books, Date: 1994-12-15. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 1994. Signature Books ISBN 1560850566 9781560850564 [US]

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, in association with Smith Research Associates, Date: 1994. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good. Thick 8vo. xv+685pp., illustrations, notes, appendices, index. Converts to Joseph Smith's 1828 Mormon restoration movement were attracted to the non-hierarchical nature of the venture. It wa sprecisely because there were no priests, ordinances, or dogma taht people were drawn in such numbers. Smith intended everyone to be a prophet, and anyone who felt called was invited to minister freely, wothout formal office. At the time of Smith's martyrdom in 1844, the Church had developed five leading quorums of authority, and it was Brigham Young's Quorum of the Twelve that moved decisively to eliminate contenders for the presidency and continue Smith's political and doctrinal innovations and social stratification. Young's 20th-century legacy is a well-defined structure without the charismatic spotanaeity or egalitarian chaos of early Mormonism. Historian D. Michael Quinn examines the contradictions and confusion of the first tumultuous decades of Latter-day Saint history. he demonstrates how events and doctrines were silently, retroactively inserted into the published form of the scriptures and official records to smooth out a stormy and often haphazard development. The bureaucratization of Mormonism was inevitable, but the manner in which this occurred was unpredictable and fascinating. 1994. Signature Books, in association with Smith ...

Signature Books, December Date: 1994. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash/Very Good. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Dust jacket has minor surface and edgewear. There is a large sticker on the spine. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. 1994. Signature Books ISBN 1560850566 9781560850564 [US]

Signature Books, Date: 1994-12-15. 1. hardcover. Used:Good. 1994. Signature Books ISBN 1560850566 9781560850564 [US]

Signature Books, Date: 1994. Hardcover. New. 720 pages. 9.50x6.75x2.00 inches. 1994. Signature Books ISBN 1560850566 9781560850564 [GB]

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, Date: 1994. hardcover. very good/very good. 685 pages. Thick 8vo, charcoal cloth, d.w. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994. Signed by author on title page. A very good copy--light foxing to outer edges, previous owner gift inscription on half-title page--in a very good wrapper, scuffed with foxing to verso.<br/> <br/> 1994. Signature Books ISBN 1560850566 US