Week 7 Lab: After the Manifesto

The fundamentalist split the 1890 Manifesto itself produced, and the road to Short Creek and the FLDS

5 April 2027

Before the lab#

Read about the 1890s–1930s fundamentalist movement: the people who read the Manifesto as a political concession rather than a doctrinal reversal, and kept practicing plural marriage regardless.

In the lab#

This schism has no dead founder. The fundamentalist movement splits from the mainstream church over a doctrine the mainstream church itself changed — continuationism, the claim that a valid revelation stays binding even after the church publicly reverses its position. We trace this to Short Creek (later Colorado City/Hildale) and the FLDS church, still operating today.

Afterwards#

Hold this case next to week 4’s Strangites: one collapsed at its founder’s death, the other has now outlasted the church it split from by over a century.