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	succession - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about succession
		If allowed to proceed undisturbed, succession leads naturally to a stable climax community (for example, oak and hickory forest or savannah grassland) that is determined by the climate and soil characteristics of the area.
		In the next place, with respect to the succession of children, there ought not to be too great an interval of time between them and their parents; for when there is, the parent can receive no benefit from his child's affection, or the child any advantage from his father's protection;
		In the next chapter I shall consider the geological succession of organic beings throughout time; in the eleventh and twelfth, their geographical distribution throughout space; in the thirteenth, their classification or mutual affinities, both when mature and in an embryonic condition.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /succession (341 words)

	Reviews -- The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
		Mormons today may not recognize the contradictory, sometimes violent early church of their ancestors that is depicted in a new history, a book based in part on documents the church now keeps locked up.
		Challenging historians who argue that Mormons were moderates working within an American consensus, Quinn marshals powerful evidence detailing the emergence of Mormon military and political structures, their relationship to priestly quorums and temple endowments, and their role in Joseph Smith's truncated 1844 campaign for president.
		Chapter 5, "The 1844 Succession Crisis and the Twelve," addresses the emergence of the Twelve as the presiding quorum of the Church after the death of Joseph Smith.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/hier1.htm (7329 words)

	Wikinfo \| Latter Day Saint movement
		The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the Mormonism movement or the Mormon movement) is a religious movement beginning in the early 19th century that led to the set of doctrines, practices, and cultures called Mormonism and to the existence of numerous churches, the majority of which call themselves Latter Day Saints.
		From 1831 until the mid-1830's, Mormonism's theology and failed attempts at Christian communal living were greatly influenced by Sidney Rigdon, a minister within the Restoration Movement who had been associated with the Disciples of Christ.
		After the Succession Crisis which followed Smith's murder by an Illinois lynch mob in 1844, a number of competing hierarchies were organized that fall into the two main branches of the movement, sometimes called the "Prairie Saints" and the "Rocky Mountain Saints".
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Latter_Day_Saint_movement (1267 words)

	Reviews -- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
		Mormons believe it is their responsibility to save their dead ancestors, as well as themselves.
		But Quinn, a former Mormon, said that despite the theological underpinnings, kinship is not the primary criterion when a church president, revered by members as a prophet, makes the final call.
		With Smith's murder, the church faced a succession crisis, discussed in chapters 5 and 6, that is one of the most fascinating periods of Mormon history.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/hier2.htm (4629 words)

	D. Michael Quinn - "The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power" - book review and relevant links
		As such, members of the other Mormon factions should also find the contents to be important in analyzing their history--especially the succession crisis.
		The falsification of Mormon history and its subsequent dissemination to the orthodox believers seems to leave Mormons like Card to think that every bit of persecution Mormons have ever received was completely and totally unprovoked.
		A Mormon historian traces the evolution of the Latter-day Saints' organizational structure from the original, egalitarian "priesthood of believers" to an elaborately hierarchical institution.
	www.lds-mormon.com /mhoop.shtml (1555 words)

	“A Survey of Mormon History and Theology” by Cky J
		Here is the philosophical ground for the paradoxical Mormon concept of the fall of man, the denial of original sin, the rejection of the traditional doctrine of grace, the intense preoccupation with the freedom of the will, the liberal estimate of human nature, and the affirmation of the radically unorthodox concepts of God and salvation.
		Mormon theology is young and unsophisticated and is not overencumbered with creeds and official pronouncements.
		Mormon apostle and thirteenth president of the Church, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote that the Son of God was “sired by that same Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father.
	www.ontruth.com /ldshistorytheology.htm (3861 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Joseph Smith, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tension was further fueled by the Mormon belief that Jackson County, Missouri, and the surrounding lands were promised to the Church by God and that the non-Mormons would be 'cut off from the land'.
		After Mormon leadership had been forced out of Kirtland in 1838, the saints from Kirtland went to Missouri, increasing the number of Latter Day Saints there and confirming the worst fears of the local leaders and residents of the Mormon threat.
		Issues relating to the succession crisis are still the subject of discussion and debate.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Joseph_Smith,_Jr. (5157 words)

	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Chief among these is The Book of Mormon, which Smith said is a record that was kept by ancient prophets who lived in the Americas, and was engraved on gold plates, which he translated by the power of God through the Urim and Thummim.
		Although Mormon theology sees the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost as separate beings, they are considered to be "one God" in most every other possible sense — most importantly they are one in purpose.
		Mormonism posits most of the same attributes to the members of the Godhead that Trinitarian Christianity posits to the Trinity: omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, eternal, immutable, immortality, and immanence in the universe but not transcendence of it.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=5935 (6527 words)

	Joseph Smith Jr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After a successful operation to remove parts of his affected shin bone (without anesthesia or the commonly used tranquilizer at that time, whiskey), Smith eventually recovered, though he used crutches for several years and was bothered with a limp for the rest of his life.
		There is some debate as to whether the Mormons knew their opponents were government officials, but the battle's aftermath was pivotal in Church history.
		The order stated that the Mormon community was in "open and avowed defiance of the laws, and of having made war upon the people of this State...
	www.paleorama.com /Eponyms-J/Joseph_Smith_Jr.php (7222 words)

	Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Succession Crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement occurred after the violent death of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.
		Following the principle of lineal succession, Smith's younger brother Samuel was the next potential candidate in line.
		Young's succession became a precedent without exception; with the death of each President, the First Presidency is dissolved and the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles becomes the new President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Succession_crisis_(Mormonism) (4112 words)

	Nauvoo Legion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organized by Doctor Sampson Avard in 1838, the Danites were a group known for violence and subscription to a doctrine called "blood atonement." Avard was excommunicated from the Church for organizing the Danites and officers of the Church publicly disavowed any sponsorship.
		The Legion insufficiently protected the Mormons from increased mob violence, so Young directed most of his followers out of the city while a crew remained to complete the Nauvoo Temple.
		Illinois was abandoned by the Mormons entirely by September 17, 1846 after a week of artillery shelling called the "Battle of Nauvoo".
	enc.qba73.com /link-Nauvoo_Legion (1047 words)

	Joseph Smith: America's Hermetic Prophet
		Despite its success and respectability, however, a fundamental crisis looms before Joseph Smith's church--and the crux of the predicament is Joseph Smith.
		Late twentieth-century Mormonism is being forced into an uncomfortable confrontation with its early nineteenth-century origins--an inevitable encounter given the preeminent import of the founding prophet to his religion.
		In effect the greater Mormon emergence can be visualized as meta-alchemical experience running from opposition to union, an experience shaped and driven by the personality of Joseph Smith.
	gnosis.org /ahp.htm (5305 words)

	Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess by Richard S. Van Wagoner - book review with relevant links
		The answer can be found in the succession crisis that took place after Smith's death.
		Another significant factor to Rigdon's demise in the eyes of Utah Mormons was the conflict between his daughter and Joseph Smith.
		For example, during the succession crisis Brigham Young made much of Rigdon's July 4, 1838 speech as the incipient cause of the Saints' Missouri troubles.
	www.lds-mormon.com /sr.shtml (1865 words)

	Baptism information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), baptism is recognized as one of the four basic principles of the gospel, in addition to faith in Jesus, repentance, and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
		In addition, Mormonism requires that baptism may only be performed with one who has been called and ordained by God with priesthood authority.
		In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or "Mormon" Church), baptism and confirmation are only the first of several ordinances believed to be required for exaltation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Baptism (5867 words)

	Burning of the Nauvoo Temple
		McCauley lived at Appanoose, where a mob gathered in January 1845 to consider driving the Mormons from Nauvoo “before the Temple was done or they never could.” In 1846, when Phineas Young and others were taken prisoners at Pontoosac, it was in retaliation for the arrest of McCauley for beating Mormons and stealing a gun.
		Sharp was indicted in the killing of the Smiths, and is renowned as the leading antagonist of the Mormons in all of Illinois and Iowa.
		Lewis Robison, a Mormon and formerly constable of Hancock County, Illinois, applied the torch to Fort Bridger on 3 October 1857, and recounted that “It burned very rapidly and made a great fire.” Within a few days Fort Supply was burned by Mormons in the Utah militia.
	www.strangite.org /Temple.htm (7506 words)

	Presidents Day Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leonard Arrington was the head of the Mormon churches hisorical department for years and had a great influence on many Mormon historians to write honest and concise history.
		In it Arrington tells the life story of Brigham Young, an early convert to Mormonism and the leader of the largest group of Mormonism to emerge from the split that took place within the church at the time of the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844.
		With unprecedented access to the archives of the Mormon Church, because of his role as Church Historian, Arrington created a portrait of a poorly-educated man of the people who was rational, even-handed, practical, diligent in his work, and faithful to the tenets of Mormonism as he understood them.
	www.holiday-book-reviews.com /Presidents_Day/Presidents_Day_4.html (9012 words)

	Mormon Denominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the murder of Joseph Smith, which took place in 1844, there was a period of time affecting the religion called the Succession Crisis.
		They feel that the word Mormon was not part of the original name.
		There are plenty of smaller Mormon groups of worship to explore.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/printer_3568.shtml (545 words)

	Church of Christ (Temple Lot) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The church shares its early history with the larger Mormon or Latter Day Saint denominations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and the Community of Christ.
		The Church's official "standards of faith" are the Bible and the Book of Mormon.
		The missionary representative in the visitors center is William A. Sheldon (as of 2006).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Temple_Lot) (600 words)

	The Legitimacy of D. Michael Quinn as a Mormon Historian - Pretty Good, but Hardly Objective
		"On Being a Mormon Historian (And Its Aftermath)." In FH, 69-111.
		For all his historical prowess, Quinn's undoing was his work "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View." It is as though he let down his guard and forgot what scholarly rigor was with sources, philosophy, logic, and most important of all, methodology.
		In the early 1980s, Dean Hickman held numerous conversations with those involved in what was then called "the Mormon history debate." Other reports of these conversations have also been published by "New Mormon Historians," sometimes as a defense for their own actions, sometimes as an attempt to silence criticism.
	www2.ida.net /graphics/shirtail/legitima.htm (4545 words)

	MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM
		There are periods during which ordinations occur in an orderly succession, but when the chain is broken, another prophet is called by God's voice or by his Spirit to begin the cycle anew.
		This new link of succession undoubtedly bolstered President Smith's and Assistant President Cowdery's authority in the eyes of the new Quorum of the Twelve and the church.
		Miller converted to Mormonism in 1843 and was apparently unaware of Joseph's similar priesthood development.
	www.xmission.com /~research/central/gpalmer1.htm (5544 words)

	The Primacy of Peter, the Papacy and Apostolic Succession
		This text is one of the earliest and most critical in establishing the idea of apostolic succession and primacy of Rome.
		It is the fact that this text, like the other comparable ante-Nicene "succession" texts, have nothing to do with apostolic succession, as it is taught by Romanism today.
		Yet, with the election of Pope Stephen (AD 254-257), the Church was faced with a crisis in the wake of the Novatian schism -- the schism created by antipope Novatian, which rocked the entire Church, both East and West.
	www.bringyou.to /apologetics/a87.htm (15456 words)

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