Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883, Hardcover

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Ministerial training was an early goalof Mormonism. The priesthood-led institutioncalled the School of the Prophets, established in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1833, was basically a divinity school for prospectivemissionaries. However, topics ofstudy included, instead of prophecy andrevelation, penmanship, English grammar, arithmetic, philosophy, literature, government, geography, and history. For sevenweeks there was even a course in Hebrew, but it was discontinued. Still, it was in thissetting that Joseph Smith received his revelationon diet and health and some of thespiritual manifestations associated withthe Kirtland temple dedication. Brigham Young re-established theschool in the Salt Lake Valley in 1867; his successor, John Taylor, resuscitated itfor a while in 1883. Young s emphasis wastheology, first as an appendage to Deseret University, and then as a separate institution. Presented here for the first time areall available minutes for the Utah period.""