Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism

摘要: After detailing the early Mormon cosmology which necessitated adoption ritual, this article treats participants, practice, and meaning of in Nauvoo Temple. Adoption theology, though still burgeoning, also served as an organizational nexus for trek west. reaching Utah, Church leaders’ views continued to develop no adoptions were performed until St. George Temple was dedicated 1877. The thirty-one-year hiatus ritual’s performance did not impede belief importance adoption, confusion abounded. Once temples available Latter-day Saints rituals, but different ways than Nauvoo. Furthermore, leaders began question debate ultimately led Wilford Woodruff’s 1894 revelation, transforming temple liturgy leading contemporary practice.