Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discontinued the practice in 1890 and again in 1904, and excommunicates members who enter it now.

Authority is held to have been lost after the apostolic age and restored directly rather than handed down, which is what the Restoration claim means.

Creation is taught as the organisation of matter that already existed and cannot be created or destroyed, so creation out of nothing is denied.

The second Article of Faith states that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression. Inherited guilt is denied in as many words.

No Roman claim to primacy is recognised, on the same ground: the line this body accepts was restored, not continued.

The third and fourth Articles of Faith set out faith, repentance, baptism by immersion and the laying on of hands as the first principles and ordinances. Justification by faith alone is not the pattern taught.

The eighth Article of Faith receives the Bible as the word of God as far as it is translated correctly, and the ninth expects further revelation. Scripture alone is not the rule.

The first Article of Faith confesses the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost as three separate personages one in purpose, not three persons of one substance. The Nicene definition is rejected by name in this body's teaching.

Latter-day Saints do not use the cross as an emblem, holding that a church should display the living Christ rather than the instrument of his death.

Latter-day Saints do not use the cross as an emblem, holding that a church should display the living Christ rather than the instrument of his death. Their buildings carry a spire and an angel instead.

The letter was bought and publicised in 1984 and proved a forgery by its maker, who was convicted of two murders committed to protect the trade. The church holds it to be no part of its history.

Latter-day Saints refuse the Nicene definition of the Godhead, holding that the Father and the Son are separate embodied persons, and the founding narrative of the church names the creeds themselves as the point of departure.

Formed by Latter-day Saints who declined the 1890 Manifesto ending plural marriage.

The Utah line's hymnals grow directly out of the 1835 book, and a core of its texts, several of them by William W. Phelps, is still sung weekly.

An apostle is ordained for life to the second highest quorum of the church, and the senior apostle becomes president on the death of his predecessor.

The plates are held to have been delivered to Joseph Smith and returned, with the testimony of the three and the eight witnesses printed in the front of the book ever since.

The hill in western New York where the church holds that the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated were buried.

The president of the church is sustained as prophet, seer and revelator, and succeeds by seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve rather than by election.

The church purchased the manuscript in 2017 and holds it as the earliest surviving complete text of the Book of Mormon, the printer's copy from which the first edition was set.

Latter-day Saint scripture names Raphael among the messengers of the restoration, which gives him a canonical standing in this tradition that he lacks in every Protestant body.

Every adult woman in the church belongs to the women's organisation by virtue of her membership, and it operates at congregation, stake and worldwide level.

The Relief Society president leads the women organisation of a ward or a stake, and at the general level of the whole church.

Forty years in the building, the temple is the church's best known building and the place where its two presiding bodies meet weekly.

Worn day and night by adult members who have received the temple endowment, as a reminder of the covenants made there. The church asks that it not be displayed or discussed casually.

The block containing the temple, the tabernacle and the church's administrative buildings is the centre of the church's worldwide organisation.

The president of the church with two counsellors he selects holds the executive authority of the church and issues the letters that direct practice in every congregation.

Twelve apostles ordained for life rank in strict seniority of ordination, which makes the succession to the presidency predictable years in advance.

The wood beside the Smith family farm where the church holds that the first vision took place, bought by the church and maintained as a site of visit.

The ward bishop is the lay leader of a congregation of a few hundred, unpaid, serving for a term of years while keeping his ordinary employment.

Latter-day Saints hold that the apostolic office was restored in 1830 and is held today by living men, against the general Christian view that it belonged to the first generation alone.

A Latter-day Saint bishop is the unpaid lay leader of a ward of a few hundred members, called for a term of some years. The word is the same and the office is not.

An elder in Latter-day Saint usage is an office in the Melchizedek priesthood held by men from the age of eighteen, and the title by which missionaries are addressed. It has nothing to do with age or with governing a congregation.

Latter-day Saint teaching, following Joseph Smith, identifies Gabriel with Noah, so the angel of the Annunciation and the patriarch of the flood are one person in two states.

Latter-day Saint scripture identifies Michael as Adam, the Ancient of Days, the first man in his premortal and resurrected office rather than an angel of a separate order from humanity.

The Word of Wisdom makes abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, tea and coffee a condition of temple recommendation, so temperance in this tradition is a defined prohibition rather than a habit of moderation.

Latter-day Saint scripture applies the name to the seer instruments Joseph Smith said accompanied the plates, an account distinct from the priestly oracle of the Hebrew Bible that carries the same name.

The seventh Article of Faith receives the gift of prophecy, and a living prophet leading the church is the ordinary condition rather than an exception.

Latter-day Saint scripture applies the name to the seer instruments Joseph Smith said accompanied the golden plates, an account distinct from the priestly oracle of the Hebrew Bible that carries the same name.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds documents bearing on its own early history in its church archive, including material later shown to be forged.

The first Article of Faith confesses God the Eternal Father, his Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost as three distinct beings united in purpose.

The Restoration claim is that priesthood authority lapsed after the apostolic age and was conferred again in the 1820s and 1830s.

The whole arc from premortal existence through mortal probation to resurrection and judgment is taught as one plan, and it is the frame the other distinctive teachings sit inside.

Venerated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the site of the First Vision.

The virgin birth is taught and is narrated in this body's own scripture as well as received from the gospels.

Three kingdoms of glory, celestial, terrestrial and telestial, are set out in a vision recorded in this body's scripture, in place of a single heaven and hell.

Plurality religious identification among the state's adults per the source's survey, the atlas's only state where the Latter-day Saint movement leads.

Salt Lake City is the global headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Salt Lake City, within the valley, is the global headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Adds a milestone in Latter day Saint institution building between the Latter day Saints being established in Utah in 1847 and the St. George Utah Temple being dedicated in 1877, both already recorded here: Brigham Young founding Brigham Young Academy in Provo on 16 October 1875, the school that became Brigham Young University in 1903.

A near-collapse of the church as a legal institution, previously entirely missing between the 1847 Utah establishment and the 1960 global-south growth events.

Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between the Salt Lake Temple's 1893 dedication and the Church's first European temple opening in 1955, both already recorded here: Heber J. Grant's April 1936 announcement of the Church Security Plan, later the Church Welfare Plan, organizing stake relief efforts, fast offerings, work projects, and bishops' storehouses during the Great Depression.

The founding episode of the Latter-day Saint movement's own spread history.

The suppression is as much a part of the Latter-day Saint movement's own spread history as any arrival, and this atlas records it exactly that plainly.

The most recent event on this tradition's own map by eighteen years, and the change that removed the barrier to the full worldwide participation the 1960 growth-across-the-global-south event already on this map describes.

Closes a 30-year gap since 1996's The Latter-day Saints Grow Across the Global South, the most recent event already on the Latter-day Saints' map, with the Church's first temple in Italy and the first-ever meeting between a Church president and a Roman Catholic pope.

Closes a 7 year gap since 2019's Russell M. Nelson Dedicates the Rome Italy Temple, the most recent event already on the Latter-day Saints' map, with the same president returning to the faith's own founding place to restate its founding claims on a bicentennial.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Latter-day Saint history between the Salt Lake Temple's 1893 dedication and Heber J. Grant's 1936 Church Security Plan, both already recorded here: the 26 August 1923 dedication of the Cardston Alberta Temple in Alberta, Canada, the first Latter-day Saint temple built outside the United States.

Adds a milestone in Latter-day Saint history between Official Declaration 2 ending the priesthood ban for Black members in 1978 and the Church lowering its minimum missionary age in 2012, both already recorded here: the Church issuing The Family, A Proclamation to the World, read by President Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City on 23 September 1995.

Closes a six year gap since 2020's groundbreaking, moving the map from the temple's own construction to its dedication and the community it now serves.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Latter-day Saint history between Official Declaration 2 ending the priesthood ban for Black members in 1978 and Russell M. Nelson dedicating the Rome Italy Temple in 2019, both already recorded here: the Church's worldwide lowering of its minimum missionary age on 6 October 2012, which sharply expanded the missionary force driving its international growth.

The church's first temple in Europe, filling the gap between the 1847 Utah event and the 1960 growth-across-the-global-south event already on this map.

Adds a specific, dated event between the 1887 Edmunds-Tucker Act's pressure toward the 1890 Manifesto and the church's 1955 opening of its first temple in Europe already recorded here: the 1893 dedication of the completed Salt Lake Temple, forty years after its cornerstone was laid, at which President Wilford Woodruff presided over thirty one sessions attended by roughly seventy thousand members.

Adds a milestone in Latter day Saint history between the church being established in Utah in 1847 and federal pressure building toward the 1890 Manifesto, both already recorded here: the St. George Utah Temple's 1877 dedication, the first temple completed since the loss of Nauvoo and the first where proxy endowments for the deceased could again be performed.