Lectures of Faith: Preface
This month marks the one-year anniversary of my blog and to celebrate, I wanted to go over some of the most famous "apocryphal" texts of Mormonism, the Lectures of Faith. The Lectures of Faith were a collection of seven Lectures delivered to the School of the Elders in Kirtland, Ohio in the winter of 1834-35 and first published in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. The authorship of the Lectures is not entirely known, with recent scholarship attributing a lot of the lectures to Sidney Rigdon, with substantial input from Joseph Smith Jr. They were published in the doctrine and covenants by the LDS church until 1921, when they were removed, as they were not revelations in the same way the rest of the D&C was. The RLDS church removed the Lectures from their version of the D&C a few decades earlier, in 1897 (Though they still publish it in a separate volume). Other branches of the restoration, such as the Strangite Church and the Remnant movement still use th...