The Demise of the Patriarchal Priesthood
Part 1: Male Patriarchal Authority
Published on Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 5:00 PM
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It is occasionally observed that in the Nauvoo period there was greater emphasis on the power and ordinances of the temple than was later taught in Utah Mormonism.
To this point, some modern authors have argued that the Temple Priesthood introduced in Nauvoo wasn’t technically “priesthood” at all, but that it was merely a cosmological framework for heaven and eternity. These authors suggest that the temple rituals were only described as “priesthood” because these ordinances were an extension of the power of God, rather than being “priesthood in the sense of ecclesiastical authority and ordained priesthood office.
But was the priesthood of the temple merely seen as cosmological in nature? Or was this new “priesthood” introduced in Nauvoo seen as having real world authority and ecclesiastical significance?
That then is the purpose of this next issue of One Eternal Round: to document the Nauvoo teachings on the Temple Priesthood and the authority of Kings and Priests and Queens and Priestesses, as well as to identify how and when this authority was later minimized.
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