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| Title | : | Parley P. Pratt |
| Author | : | Terryl L. Givens |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 499 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0195375734 |
After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian, historian, and martyr, Pratt was perennially stalked by controversy regarded, he said, almost as an Angel by thousands and counted an Imposter by tens of thousands Tracing the life of this colorful figure from h After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian, historian, and martyr, Pratt was perennially stalked by controversy regarded, he said, almost as an Angel by thousands and counted an Imposter by tens of thousands Tracing the life of this colorful figure from his hardscrabble origins in upstate New York to his murder in 1857, Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow explore the crucial role Pratt played in the formation and expansion of early Mormonism One of countless ministers inspired by the antebellum revival movement known as the Second Great Awakening, Pratt joined the Mormons in 1830 at the age of twenty three and five years later became a member of the newly formed Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which vaulted him to the forefront of church leadership for the rest of his life Pratt s missionary work reaching from Canada to England, from Chile to California won hundreds of followers, but even important were his voluminous writings Through books, newspaper articles, pamphlets, poetry, fiction, and autobiography, Pratt spread the Latter day Saint message, battled the many who reviled it, and delineated its theology in ways that still shape Mormon thought Drawing on letters, journals, and other rich archival sources, Givens and Grow examine not only Pratt s writings but also his complex personal life A polygamist who married a dozen times and fathered thirty children, Pratt took immense joy in his family circle even as his devotion to Mormonism led to long absences that put heavy strains on those he loved It was during one such absence, a mission trip to the East, that the estranged husband of his twelfth wife shot and killed him a shocking conclusion to a life that never lacked in drama
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Terryl L Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did his graduate work in Intellectual History Cornell and Comparative Literature Ph.D UNC Chapel Hill, 1988 , working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English languages and literatures As Professor of Literature and Religion, and the James A Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Rich Terryl L Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did his graduate work in Intellectual History Cornell and Comparative Literature Ph.D UNC Chapel Hill, 1988 , working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English languages and literatures As Professor of Literature and Religion, and the James A Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond, he teaches courses in Romanticism, nineteenth century cultural studies, and the Bible and Literature He has published in literary theory, British and European Romanticism, Mormon studies, and intellectual history.Dr Givens has authored several books, including The Viper on the Hearth Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy Oxford 1997 By the Hand of Mormon The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion Oxford 2003 People of Paradox A History of Mormon Culture Oxford 2007 The Book of Mormon A Very Short Introduction Oxford 2009 and When Souls had Wings Pre Mortal Life in Western Thought 2010 Current projects include a biography of Parley P Pratt with Matt Grow, to be published by Oxford in 2011 , a sourcebook of Mormonism in America with Reid Neilson, to be published by Columbia in 2011 , an Oxford Handbook to Mormonism with Phil Barlow , and a two volume history of Mormon theology He lives in Montpelier, Virginia 
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After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture Missionary, pamphleteer, theo
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