Latter Days: An Insider's Guide to Mormonism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Macmillan, 2001 M05 4 - 288 pages

This is the story of the Latter-day Saints, the story of when God came back to earth and started things over-in person. It may be the most confident message of God in centuries.

Free of proselytory pretense, yet written with the non-Latter-day Saint reader firmly in mind, Latter Days goes right to the mind and heart of this religion, exploring an utterly unique catalogue of Christian doctrine on the purpose of human existence and destiny. It presents the Mormon story of the creation of this world and lays out what Mormons believe is the divine plan for mankind, from Adam, Noah, and Christ to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. It relates the astonishing story of the great Mormon Exodus, explaining how they were driven from the supposedly civilized United States to the wilderness of the Salt Lake-a truly remarkable story that few of us learned in our high school history classes.

 

Contents

A HEAVENLY START
7
THE CHOICE
13
THE PLACE WHERE ADAM DWELT
18
OH ISRAEL
24
The First Coming and a Falling Away
31
THE FULCRUM OF TIME
33
CHRIST IN AMERICA
48
OF PETER POPES AND PROPHETS
57
THE AMERICAN EXODUS
143
THE CAMP OF ISRAEL
162
ROAD TO ZION
170
TRANSITION
184
GIVE AND TAKE
198
Steaming Toward Kolob
209
FROM ZERO TO SIXTY IN 22
211
THE BIGGEST HEAVEN AND THE LITTLEST HELL
225

Beyond the First Vision
63
ANGELS ON THE EARTH
65
THE UNTOLD STORY
82
ROAD TO CARTHAGE
98
AFTERMATH
129
PRELUDE TO A FINALE
134
Epilogue
245
Important Doctrines and Policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
249
Selected Bibliography
261
Index
263
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Coke Newell, a convert in his late teens to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the journalism program at Colorado State University. For most of a decade a media spokesman for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, he has authored or contributed to a number of books and periodicals, and has been quoted extensively on Church policy, history, and doctrine. Coke Newell, a convert in his late teens to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the journalism program at Colorado State University. For most of a decade a media spokesman for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, he has authored or contributed to a number of books and periodicals, and has been quoted extensively on Church policy, history, and doctrine.

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