Temples

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Temple Pro Tempore: The Salt Lake City Endowment House

Journal of Mormon History. Vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 1-68

By:

Lisle G. Brown

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Joseph Smith’s Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question

Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1982

By:

Andrew F. Ehat

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The Law of Adoption: One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1980

BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 14 Issue 3 Article 2: 291-314

By:

Gordon Irving

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What Has Become of Our Fathers?’ Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Vol. 23, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 85-97

By:

M. Guy Bishop

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Saviors on Mt. Zion’: Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptisms for the Dead

Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 39 No. 4 (Fall 2013): 182-238

By:

Ryan G. Tobler

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Mormon Women and the Temple: Toward a New Understanding

In Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective: 80-108

By:

Carol Cornwall Madsen

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The Holy Temple

By:

Boyd K. Packer

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Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994

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James B. Allen, Jessie L. Embrey and Kahlile B. Mehr

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The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West

By:

Laurel B. Andrew

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Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840-1845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois (Volumes 1-7)

By:

Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black

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Images Of The New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations

By:

Craig Steven Campbell

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The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History

By:

Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow

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Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise

By:

Glen M. Leonard

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The Temple: Where Heaven Meets Earth

By:

Truman G. Madsen

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The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology

By:

Jonathan A. Stapley

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Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833-1898.(9 volumes)

By:

Wilford Woodruff

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Things in Heaven and On Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, A Mormon Prophet

By:

Thomas G. Alexander

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The Development of Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History

By:

Devery S. Anderson

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Temples Rising: A Heritage of Sacrifice

By:

Richard E. Bennett

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The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship

By:

David J. Buerger

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Temples to Dot the Earth

By:

Richard O. Cowan

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Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space

By:

David J. Hewlett

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Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective

By:

Lavina Fielding Anderson and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

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Temple and Cosmos: Beyond the Ignorant Present

By:

Hugh W. Nibley

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The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern

By:

James E. Talmage

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All that was Promised: The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration

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Blaine M. Yorgason, Richard A. Schmutz, and Douglas D. Alder

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