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Sidney Rigdon A Portrait of Religious Excess by Richard S. Van Wagoner Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994 |
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Summary: In the late 1820s a fiery young minister in western Ohio converted nearly 1,000 proselytes to the Reformed Baptist Movement. As these schismatics organized themselves into the new Disciples of Christ church, the Reverend Sidney Rigdon was already aligning himself with another, more radical movement, the Latter-day Saints, where he quickly became the LDS prophet's principal advisor and spokesman. He served Joseph Smith loyally for the next fourteen years, even through a brief spat over the prophet's romantic interest in his teenage daughter. Next to Smith, Rigdon was the most influential early Mormon. He imported Reformed Baptist teachings into Latter-day Saint theology, wrote the canonized Lectures on Faith, championed communalism and isolationism, and delivered many of the most significant early sermons, including the famous Salt Sermon and the Ohio temple dedicatory address. [publisher blurb] Annotations: Included in 60 Significant Mormon Biographies Awards: 1994 Ella Larsen Turner Best Biography Award winner (Mormon History Association). Best Book, John Whitmer Historical Association More info at publisher website http://www.signaturebooks.com/sidney.htm HBLL Call No: BX 8670.1 .R44v 1994 | ||||||||
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