Temples
Latter-Day Saint Reference Library
Articles and Excerpts
Books
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
Joseph Smith’s Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1982
By:
Andrew F. Ehat
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
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
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
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
Books
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Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994
By:
James B. Allen, Jessie L. Embrey and Kahlile B. Mehr
The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West
By:
Laurel B. Andrew
Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840-1845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois (Volumes 1-7)
By:
Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black
Images Of The New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations
By:
Craig Steven Campbell
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
Things in Heaven and On Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, A Mormon Prophet
By:
Thomas G. Alexander
The Development of Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History
By:
Devery S. Anderson
Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
By:
Lavina Fielding Anderson and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
All that was Promised: The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration
By:
Blaine M. Yorgason, Richard A. Schmutz, and Douglas D. Alder