Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith Volume 1
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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…mehr

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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. 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.
GARY JAMES BERGERA / Hardback. 352 pages. 1-56085-164-3 / $25.95
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Gary James Bergera is managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation in Salt Lake City, former managing director of Signature Books, and former managing editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is co-author of Brigham Young University: A House of Faith, editor of Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, Statement of the LDS First Presidency, and companion volumes of Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845, and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846 (also co-editor) and On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess, and a contributing author in The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith, Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue, and The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism. He is also the recipient of a Best Article Award from the Mormon History Association.