Week 1: Before the Fracture: Nauvoo, 1844
The power centres inside Nauvoo before Joseph Smith's death, and the framework the semester tests against them
22 February 2027
Outline#
- Nauvoo in 1844: the Nauvoo Legion, the Council of Fifty, and Smith’s simultaneous civic and ecclesiastical titles
- the two doctrines nobody outside the inner circle was told about: plural marriage, and the fullness of priesthood ordinances given to the Twelve
- the four-part framework this course uses all semester: vacuum, claim, pivot, response
- what to bring to week 2
Teaching team
- Marisol Quaye — convenor