Week 9: Doctrine Tracks the Pivot

Why what a splinter group keeps and discards isn't random — it follows the argument that justified splitting

19 April 2027

Outline#

• temple ordinances, plural marriage, and the Book of Abraham as three doctrines that diverge sharply by branch
• why retention correlates with each group’s founding pivot rather than with distance from Nauvoo
• building a comparison table across branches
• how this feeds into the final project’s map