Priesthood Restoration Documents

Title

Priesthood Restoration Documents

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

1995

Authors

Cannon, Brian Q. (Primary), and BYU Studies Staff (Primary)

Pagination

162-207

Volume

35

Issue

4

Abstract

Few events in the history of the Restoration are as consequential as the bestowal of the priesthood upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. The following excerpts from early Church documents recount all of the known direct statements from the first twenty years of Church history specifically concerning the restoration of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods. In addition to compiling the descriptions that were written or dictated by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, this collection also includes the accounts by contemporaries of Joseph and Oliver up to the time of Cowdery’s death in 1850. Reflecting information that was probably gleaned from conversations or unrecorded discourses of Joseph and Oliver, a few of these statements offer details unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, these statements help to reveal early Church members’ understanding of the restoration of the priesthood and show how they described the priesthood restoration to others.

Subject Keywords

Restoration
Melchizedek Priesthood
John the Baptist
Aaronic Priesthood
John the Beloved
Peter (Apostle)
James (Apostle)
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Cowdery, Oliver

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