Day 18. October 13, 2006
Movement 2. Solus Jesus
Lecture 9. Another Testament of the Christ: Jesus and the Latter-day Saints (Part 1)
Mormonism is the story of a new and quintessentially American religious tradition, born on the romantic frontier of America's post-revolutionary democratic ferment and intent on restoring true Christianity. The founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, emerged in the 1820s at the heart of the Second Great Awakening in western New York. His religious experience, visions, and ideas, drawing on the New Testament and later the Hebraic scriptures, placed Jesus at the center of "Textual" Mormonism revealed in the Book of Mormon. This focus quickly shifted to the rites and rituals of Temple Mormonism outlined in subsequent revelations in the book of Doctrine and Covenants.