Mormonism and Early Christianity

Authors

Hugh Nibley

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Description

From the outset of his career, Dr. Hugh Nibley has been centrally concerned with primitive Christianity, especially the shadowy era between the New Testament proper and the emergence and the triumph of the Catholic Church and Holy Roman Empire. That is the era treated in the nine essays collected in this volume.

The essays cover such subjects as early accounts of Jesus’ childhood, the Savior’s forty-day ministry after his resurrection, baptism for the dead in ancient times, the passing of the primitive church, and the early Christian prayer circle.

Each essay examines the close connection between the practices and the doctrines of the early Church and the Church of the latter days. Each essay has been reedited, and all the original sources have been rechecked. Many of the conclusions and arguments in these articles will stand in future scholarship; others will be discarded. But Hugh Nibley’s work has laid the foundation for all further discussion.

Copyright Status

© 1987 Hugh Nibley and Associates, LLC.

ISBN

978-0875791272

Owning Institution

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Publisher

Deseret Book Company

Publication Date

1987

Disciplines

Religion | Religious Education

Recommended Citation

Nibley, Hugh, "Mormonism and Early Christianity" (1987). Maxwell Institute Publications. 53.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/53