Week 5: Lineage as Doctrine

The Reorganization's succession theory, and the polygamy denial that became its founding pivot

22 March 2027

Outline#

• lineal succession: authority by descent, not quorum or testimony
• Joseph Smith III’s 1860 acceptance of leadership
• the denial of Nauvoo-era polygamy as the Reorganization’s doctrinal pivot
• how a rejected practice can found a church as surely as an embraced one