Women and the Priesthood
The Demise of the Patriarchal Priesthood: Part 2
Published on Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 8:00 PM
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It is sometimes noted that in the Nauvoo period and early Utah there was a greater emphasis on the power and ordinances of the temple than was taught later on. Early sources and testimony indicate that through the temple rituals that women participated in and exercised the priesthood.
However, some modern authors have instead argued that the Temple Priesthood introduced in Nauvoo that women received wasn’t technically “priesthood” at all, but rather that it was merely a cosmological framework for heaven and eternity.
But was the priesthood of the temple seen as merely cosmological in nature? Or was this new “priesthood” introduced n Nauvoo seen as having real world authority for women?
It is also acknowledged that women often gave blessings, could heal, and cast out devils in 19th century Mormonism. But was that done merely by faith, or was it by priesthood authority?
That is the purpose of this next issue of One Eternal Round to investigate and document the Nauvoo and early Utah teachings on women and the priesthood, as well as to identify how and when this understanding was lost.
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