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These three -- Smith, Young, and Pratt -- though they mingled like oil, air, and water, continue to hold more influence over Mormon thought than any subsequent church leader.
Conflict in the Quorum
by Bergera, Gary JamesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-12-01
Publisher(s): Signature Books
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Summary
Like Uriah and his wife Bathsheba in the Old Testament, Orson Pratt, the bright, thirty-one-year-old member of the Mormon hierarchy, was forced to choose between his wife and his spiritual leader, Joseph Smith. The year was 1842, the place Nauvoo, Illinois. Pratt would forever after be associated with controversy -- a fly in the ointment in Brigham Young's view. His willingness to speak his mind put him at odds with Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and Orson's own brother Parley. But his integrity and intellectualism kept him in the inner circles, even though Young demoted him in the Quorum of the Twelve. This action prevented his eventual succession as LDS church president.
Author Biography
Gary James Bergera is managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation in Salt Lake City. He is the recipient of a Best Article Award from the Mormon History Association
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Prologue. "Out of the Church" | p. 1 |
| "My Sorrows Are Greater than I Can Bear!" | p. 7 |
| Return to Power and Authority | p. 33 |
| Perfectly Submissive | p. 53 |
| Preaching Salvation and Eternal Truth | p. 85 |
| A Great Mystery | p. 113 |
| False Doctrine | p. 137 |
| "Let Br. Pratt Do as He Will" | p. 153 |
| Matters of the Gods | p. 169 |
| Apparent Contradictions | p. 189 |
| While Wickedness Stalks Unrebuked | p. 213 |
| The Interests of Posterity | p. 227 |
| Regret for Past Sins | p. 245 |
| Adjusting Matters | p. 261 |
| Epilogue: Because He Faltered | p. 279 |
| Sources Cited | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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