Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia

In the third book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon, we find that Jesus, as well as announcing that the law of Moses was fulfilled in him, says: “Ye are my disciples: and ye are a light unto this people, who are a remnant of the house of Joseph”(3 Nephi 15: 12). Doctrinally, Mormonism (the scripture gave its name “Mormons” to what was formally known from 1838 as the Church of the Latter‐Day Saints) calls itself a new narrative of Christianity. It was revealed to and transcribed by Joseph Smith Jr in the 1820s, published as a book...