The Essential Brigham Young (eBook, ePUB)

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After converting to Mormonism in 1832, Brigham Young (1801-77) quickly rose to prominence and was called to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles within three years. He personally directed the highly successful 1839 proselyting mission to Great Britain, and he was appointed president of the Twelve Apostles the following year. In 1846-47 he oversaw the epic colonization of the Intermountain West.

Self-educated and preoccupied with the day-to-day business of his widespread empire, Young rarely found time to read. But he delivered hundreds of lively, extemporaneous sermons which blended common sense with theological speculation. Such homespun treatises carried an immediacy that was absent from the philosophically-oriented studies of his ecclesiastical colleague Orson Pratt, though, at the same time, YoungâEUR(TM)s speeches could be unfocused and contradictory.

Several of the more controversial teachings that Young promulgatedâEUR"Adam-as-God, divine omniscience, and blood atonementâEUR"have sparked considerable debate since they were first uttered more than one hundred years ago. âEURoeWill you love your brothers and sisters likewise,âEUR he once asked, âEURoewhen they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?âEUR

Other favorite topics were the âEURoepersonality of God,âEUR âEURoeelection and reprobation,âEUR and âEURoethe resurrection.âEUR His sermons usually begin in a chatty way: âEURoeI remarked last Sunday that I had not felt much like preaching,âEUR or âEURoeWhen I contemplate the subject of salvation, and rise before a congregation to speak upon that all-important matter, it has been but a few times in my life that I could see a beginning point to it, or a stopping place.âEUR Readers will find themselves drawn into the rhythm of YoungâEUR(TM)s rhetoric in the same way as his original hearers were.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Signature Books
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781560853794
• Artikelnr.: 72472291