LDS Links

One of the most important sites for the study of Mormon teaching is “the official internet site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, www.lds.org. Among the many resources you will find there are the most current editions of the LDS Standard Works, the past thirty years of the Church’s official magazines (Ensign, Friend, Liahona, New Era), and the full text of current LDS curriculum. Everything is completely searchable. Please note that we have included a link to the book Gospel Principles, the full text of which used to appear on the site under “Basic Beliefs.” This widely used book, which has been through eight editions since its first appeared in 1978, is the closest thing to an official handbook of LDS teaching that exists. Toward the end of 2001, Gospel Principles was removed from the Basic Beliefs section of www.lds.org (although it is still accessible through the Curriculum links), and it has been replaced by a new site, www.mormon.org. The link to Gospel Principles given below is still functional, however.

Gospel Principles
Changes to Gospel Principles through various editions since 1978
 

LDS Scripture

Search all the Standard Works.

Joseph Smith Translation (Inspired Version)

Book of Mormon (Current Edition)

Book of Mormon
Searchable edition
Scanned images of the entire first edition of the Book of Mormon (1830)
Original 1830 Book of Mormon Page Numbers (red) With Corresponding 1981 (current) Book of Mormon Verses

Doctrine & Covenants (Current Edition)

Doctrine & Covenants
Scanned images of the entire first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835)
Scanned images of the Book of Commandments (1833), the precursor to the Doctrine and Covenants

Pearl of Great Price (Current Edition)

Early Mormon Periodicals

Evening and Morning Star (1832-34)

Messenger and Advocate (1834-37)

Times and Seasons (1840-46)

Other Documents Relating to Mormon History

Poem by John Greenleaf Whittier

Nathaniel Hawthorne & Dr. Dee

The Money Diggers by John G. C. Brainard (1796-1828)

Some Passages from Daniel Pierce Thompson’s May Martin; or, The Money Diggers (1835)

The Seekers
Notes on the Seekers (a religious sect who believed that authentic Christianity could not exist apart from an institution in which valid ecclesiastical ordinances were in operation) by Ron Huggins

A passage from Martin Del Rio's Investigations Into Magic (1599-1600)

A page on Johannes Kelpius (1673-1708)
Founder of the "Woman in the Wilderness" community on the Wissahickon Creek near Germantown, Pennsylvania.

“A Modern Pilgrimage”
The New-England Magazine 9.7 (July 1855) 31-39.

History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania by Emily C. Blackman
 (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Hoffelfinger, 1873) 577-82.

Joseph Smith's History

Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah 1540-1886

R. N. Baskin, Reminiscences of Early Utah (1914)

J. H. Beadle, Life in Utah (1870)

Josiah F. Gibbs, Mountain Meadows Massacre

E[ber] D[udley] Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (1834)

Rev. R. G. McNiece, D.D. “Mormonism: Its Origin, Characteristics, and Doctrines,” The Fundamentals (1917) 4:131-148.

Reed Peck Manuscript (1839)

Orson Pratt, Remarkable Visions (1840)

Parley P. Pratt, Mormonism Unveiled (2d ed. 1838)

Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews (2d ed. 1825)

Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith and His Progenitors (1854)

Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse, Tell It All (1875)

LaRoy Sunderland, Mormonism Exposed and Refuted (1838)

LaRoy Sunderland, Mormonism Exposed (1842)

John Whitmer’s History (1838)

Ann-Eliza Young, Wife No. 19 (1875)

John H. Beadle (with William McLellin, 1875)

William Law (with William Wyl, 1887)

Martin Harris (with Joel Tiffany)

Fiction Based on Mormon Themes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) Debut of Sherlock Holmes

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Dynamiter

Daniel P. Thompson, May Martin; or, The Money Diggers. A Green Mountain Tale

Materials relating to the "Great Apostasy"

James Talmage's reliance on Protestant sources in The Great Apostasy (1909) (PDF, 7 Kb)

Deification

Deification in John Scotus Eriugena’s Prologue to the Gospel of John (PDF, 19Kb)
An Important Distinction: Jesus Became Man; God the Father Did Not (PDF, 32Kb) - Ron Huggins

 

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