Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Keywords
temple, Disciples of Christ, New Testament, Mormonism, Joseph Smith
Abstract
As a new faith's purported "Gold Bible" began rolling off the presses at the E. B. Grandin print shop, the public was curious to know the nature of that faith. Protestant sects proliferated wildly during the Second Great Awakening, particularly in the fertile soil of upstate New York's "Burned-over District:' And restorationists, like the Christian primitivist Disciples of Christ, who aimed to restore the New Testament Church, were a familiar breed among them. Such sects provided the best model for what the public might expect Palmyra's new faith to become, but actual information was still hard to come by.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Bradley, Don
(2018)
"Building the Temple of Nephi: Early Mormon Perceptions of Cumorah and the New Jerusalem,"
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 27:
No.
1, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol27/iss1/14