Week 7: Continuationism

Why a doctrine the mainstream church itself reversed became someone else's reason to split from it

5 April 2027

Outline#

• the fundamentalist argument: a true revelation outlives an institutional decision to stop practicing it
• Short Creek, Colorado City/Hildale, and the FLDS church’s twentieth-century history
• comparing a schism with no dead founder to the four founding claims studied so far
• reading a schism as ongoing rather than as a single dated event