Standing apart : Mormon historical consciousness and the concept of apostasy / edited by Miranda Wilcox, John D. Young.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young -- Historical periodization in the LDS Great Apostasy narrative / Eric R. Dursteler -- "Except among that portion of mankind": early Mormon conceptions of the apostasy / Christopher C. Jones and Stephen J. Fleming -- James Talmage, B.H. Roberts, and confessional history in a secular age / Matthew Bowman -- Narrating apostasy and the LDS quest for identity / Miranda Wilcox -- Competing histories in the Hebrew Bible and in the Latter-day Saint tradition / Cory D. Crawford -- Latter-day Saint perceptions of Jewish apostasy in the time of Jesus / Matthew J. Grey -- Purity and parallels: constructing the apostasy narrative of early Christianity / Taylor G. Petrey -- Rereading the Council of Nicaea and its creed / Lincoln H. Blumell -- Apostasy's ancestors: anti-Arian and anti-Mormon discourse in the struggle for Christianity / Ariel Bybee Laughton -- "Complexity and richness": reenvisioning the Middle Ages for Mormon historical narratives / Spencer E. Young -- King Ratbod's dilemma: apostasy and restoration in the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries / Jonathan Green -- Covenantal pluralism in Mormonism and Islam: alternatives to the binary logic of apostasy / David D. Peck -- Long narratives: toward a new Mormon understanding of apostasy / John D. Young -- Epilogue: "We have only the old thing": rethinking Mormon restoration / Terryl Givens -- Appendix. Statement of the First Presidency regarding God's love for all mankind.

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'Standing Apart' explores how the idea of apostasy has functioned as a category to mark, define, and set apart 'the other' in the development of Mormon historical consciousness and in the construction of Mormon narrative identity. The contributors trace the development of and changes in Latter-day Saints' narratives of apostasy within the context of Mormon history and American Protestant historiography.

English.

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