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1 Milton Viorst, Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979);
Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Harper and Row, 1984);
William L. O’Neill, Coming Apart (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971);
Godfrey Hodgen, America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon, What Happened and Why (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1976).
2 Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion: Volume 1, The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), flyleaf.
3 Barbara Higdon, "The Reorganization in the Twentieth Century," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 7 (Spring 1972): 94-100;
Roger D. Launius, "A New Historiographical Frontier: The Reorganized Church in the Twentieth Century," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 6 (1986): 53-63.
4 Harvey Cox, The Secular City (New York: Macmillan, 1965);
Will Herberg, Protestant Catholic , Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1955).
5 Rules and Resolutions (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1980), World Conference Resolution (WCR) 1045.
6 Clifford A. Cole, "World Church: Our Mission in the 1980s," Commission, Sept. 1979, 43.
7 First Presidency, "The Church and the Social Order," Saints’ Herald 113 (15 Mar. 1966): 186-89, 198-99.
8 First Presidency, "Editorial Comment on the Church and the Social Order," ibid. 113 (15 Mar. 1966): 185.
9 Roy A. Cheville, "Mormonism on the Move," ibid. 111 (1 Jan. 1964): 10-12;
Richard B. Lancaster, "The Contemporary Christ: The Relevance of the Doctrine of the Resurrection," ibid. 111 (15 Mar. 1964): 186-87;
Raymond R. Broadfoot, "The Restoration Church in the Space Age," ibid. 111 (1 Apr. 1964): 221-22, 235;
First Presidency, "Our Position on Race and Color," ibid. 110 (1 Aug. 1963): 506;
Paul A. Wellington," The Restoration Attitude Towards Race," ibid. 110 (15 Nov. 1963): 770;
William D. Russell, "Martin Luther King: Satan or Saint?" ibid. 110 (1 July 1963): 434.
10 W. Wallace Smith, "Our Hope and Our Salvation," ibid. 113 (15 May 1966): 330-33, 343.
11 James lice, "The Poverty Program—Its Relationship to Zionie Ideals," ibid. 113 (15 Apr. 1966): 260-62;
G.R. Westwood, "The Dilemma in Human Values," ibid. 113 (1 Aug. 1966): 522-25;
Cecil L. Eubanks, "The God of History Is on the Move," ibid. 113 (15 Aug. 1966): 54849;
Gerald Gabriel, "Inequality in a World of Plenty," ibid. 113 (15 Sept. 1966): 618-20;
Mark Dievendorf, "Welfare -Boon or Burden?" ibid. 113 (1 Oct. 1966): 659, 670;
Verne Sparkes, "Sinful Man and the Civil Rights Dilemma," ibid. 113 (15 Oct. 1966): 690-91, 701-702;
Jack Soldner, "The Importance of Purpose," ibid. 113 (15 Nov. 1966): 766-67, 780;
Eldon S. Ratcliffe, "Change," ibid. 113 (1 Dec. 1966): 801, 813.
12 "The Vietnam Involvement" issue, ibid. 113 (1 Feb. 1966);
"The War on Poverty" issue, ibid. 113 (15 Apr. 1966);
"The Church and the World" issue, ibid. 113 (1 Aug. 1966).
13 "The Other Saints," Time , 29 Apr. 1966, 74.
14 F. Henry Edwards, The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1973), 6:614.
15 Albert L. Loving, When 1 Put Out to See: The Autobiography of Albert Loving (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1974),
16 Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Report of the Commission on Education, Apr. 1970, 64, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints LibraryArchives, Independence, MO; Information Please Almanac (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), 42.
18 "Appointee Compensation," 1968, Walter N. Johnson Papers, P67, f6, Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
19 W. B. Spillman, "Dissent and the Future of the Church," in Roger D. Launius and W. B. Spillman, eds., Let Contention Cease: The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church (Independence, MO: Graceland-Park Press, 1991), 276-77.
20 Alma R. Blair, "The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Moderate Mormonism," in F. Mark McKiernan, Alma R. Blair, and Paul M. Edwards, eds., The Restoration Movement : Essays in Mormon History (Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1973), 207-30;
Clare D. Vlahos, "Moderation as a Theological Principle in the Thought of Joseph Smith III," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 1 (1981): 3-11.
21 Howard J. Booth, "Recent Shifts in Restoration Thought," in Maurice L. Draper and Clare D. Vlahos, eds., Restoration Studies I (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1980), 162-75.
the Position Papers (Independence, MO: Cumorah Books, 1975), or Exploring the Faith (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1970), with William H. Kelley, Presidency and Priesthood: The Apostasy, Reformation, and Restoration (Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House, 1908),
Joseph F. Luff, The Old Jerusalem Gospel (Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House, 1903).
Larry W. Conrad and Paul Shupe, "An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18 (Summer 1985): 92-103.
22 Larry E. Hunt, F. W. Smith: Saint as Reformer (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1982);
Paul M. Edwards, The Chief: An Administrative Biography of Frederick M. Smith (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1988);
Norma Deny Hiles, Gentle Monarch: An Administrative Biography of Israel A. Smith (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1991).
23 Norman F. Furniss, The Fundamentalist Controversy, 1918-1931 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1954);
Ernest R. Sandeen, The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970);
Willard J. Gatewood, Jr., ed., Controversy in the Twenties: Fundamentalism, Modernism, and Evolution (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1969);
Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion, Volume 1;
George R. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
24 Book of Doctrine and Covenants (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1970 ed.), Sec. 145.
Reed M. Holmes, The Patriarchs (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1978).
26 William J. Knapp, "Professionalizing Religious Education in the Church: The New Curriculum Controversy," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 2 (1982): 47-59.
Donald D. Landon, "A Question of Means or Ends: The Debate over Religious Education," Sunstone 10 (1986): 21-23
27 Garland E. Tickemyer, The Old Testament Speaks to Our Day (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1960-61),
his "A Study of Some Representative Concepts of a Finite God in Contemporary American Philosophy with Application to the God Concepts of the Utah Mormons," M.A. Thesis, University of Southern California, 1954.
Garland E. Tickemyer, "Joseph Smith and Process Theology," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 (Autumn 1984): 75-85.
28 James E. Lancaster, "By the Gift and Power of God," Saint’s Herald 109 (15 Nov. 1962): 798-802, 806, 817; reprinted with minor revisions in the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 3 (1983): 51-61.
29 Clair E. Weldon, "Two Transparent Stones: The Story of the Urim and Thummim," Saints’ Herald 109 (1 Sept. 1962): 616-20, 623.
30 Lloyd R. Young, Concerning the Virgin Birth: Comments on the Doctrine, ibid. 111 (1 Feb. 1964): 77-78, 94.
31 F. Henry Edwards, For Such a Time (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1963);
Roy A. Cheville, Spirituality in the Space Age (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1962);
William R. Clinefelter, The Covenant and the Kingdom (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1964).
32 Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965).
Pelletier to All Members of the Joint Council, 29 May 1967, Walter N. Johnson Papers, 1905-80, P67, fl7, Reorganized Church Library-Archives
33 Donald D. Landon, A History of Donald D. Landon While Under General Conference Appointment, 1951-1970: An Oral History Memoir (Independence, MO: Department of History, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1970), 94.
34 Knapp, "Professionalizing Religious Education," 49.
35 William D. Russell, "Reorganized Mormons Beset by Controversy," Christian Century, 17 June 1970, 770.
36 Verne Sparks, The Theological Enterprise (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1969).
Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1966
37 Wayne Ham, "Problems in Interpreting the Book of Mormon as History," Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action 1 (Sept. 1970): 15-22.
38 Exploring the Faith (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1970).
39 Report of the Commission on Education, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Apr. 1970, 116.
Knapp, "Professionalizing Religious Education."
40 Pelletier to Joint Council, 29 May 1967.
41 Roger Yarrington, "Changes in the Church," Saints Herald 137 (Sept. 1990): 10.
42 Charles D. Neff, "The Church and Culture," ibid. 119 (Dec. 1972): 13-14, 51-52.
Cole, "The World Church: Our Mission in the 1980s," 42;
"The Joseph Smith Saints," Life, 2 May 1960, 63-66;
Charles D. Neff, "The Problem of Becoming a World Church," Saints Herald 121 (Sept. 1974): 554-57.
43 Clifford A. Cole, "Theological Perspectives of World Mission," Saints Herald 118 (July 1971): 11.
44 Maurice L. Draper, Isles and Continents (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1982).
45 Rules and Resolutions, WCR 1021.
46 Richard P. Howard, "The Changing RLDS Response to Mormon Polygamy: A Preliminary Analysis," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 3 (1983): 14-28;
Alma R. Blair, "RLDS Views of Polygamy: Some Historiographical Notes," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 5 (1985): 16-28.
47 Maurice L. Draper, "Polygamy Among Converts in East Asia," Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action 1 (Dec. 1970): 85-88,
Verne Deskin, "You Are Involved in Polygamy," Courage: AJournal of History, Thought, and Action 1 (Dec. 1970): 89-92, a critique from a conservative church member;
Editorial Board, "The Polygamy Debate in the Church Today," Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action 1 (Dec. 1970): 107-109;
Draper, Isles and Continents, 136, 191-95, 258.
48 Russell, "Reorganized Mormon Church Beset by Controversy," 769-71.
49 Draper, Isles and Continents.
50 Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, " Study of Organization and Management Practices," Oct. 1969, unpublished study located in Reorganized Church Library-Archives;
Garland E. Tickemyer, "The Regional Administrator," 25 Nov. 1963, unpublished paper located in Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
52 Objectives of the Church (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1966).
53 First Presidency to Elders of the Church, Jan. 1968, Walter N. Johnson Papers, P67, f19.
54 Maurice L. Draper, "The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Before and After 1960," unpublished address delivered at Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa. This approach toward management was codified in a 1970 World Conference Resolution. See Rules and Resolutions, WCR 1097.
Phillip M. Caswell, "The Methods and Benefits of Decentralization," 4 Nov. 1966, unpublished paper written for a class in Church Administration offered by the School of the Restoration, copy available in Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
55 Clifford A. Cole, "An Oral History Memoir," 1985, 179, unpublished manuscript, Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
56 W. Wallace Smith, "An Oral History Memoir," 1981, 196, unpublished manuscript in the Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
The report, Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, "Study of Organization and Management Practices," is available in the Reorganized Church LibraryArchives
57 Cole, "Oral History Memoir," 165.
58 Smith, "Oral History Memoir," 175.
59 Interview with L. D. Harsin, 15 Jan. 1991, Independence, Missouri;
E. Boyce Rogers, "Sections 149 and 149A: Conflict and Compromise,"
60 Harold W. Cackler, quoted in Rogers, "Sections 149 and 149A."
61 Doctrine and Covenants 149;
World Conference Transcript, 1968, 106, Reorganized Church Library-Archives.
62 World Conference Transcript, 1968, 107.
63 Roy A. Cheville to Reed M. Holmes, 14 June 1969, Walter N. Johnson Papers, P67, f22.
64 M. Richard Troeh, "Divisions of the House," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 19 (Fall 1986): 59-83;
M. Richard Troeh and Marjorie Troeh, The Conferring Church (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1987).
65 Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess, Introduction to the Science of Sociology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921), 104, 872.
66 Booth, "Recent Shifts in Restoration Thought";
Maurice L. Draper, "Sect-Denomination-Church Transition and Leadership in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," M.A. Thesis, Kansas University, 1964;
Douglas D. Alder and Paul M. Edwards, "Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 11 (Spring 1978): 18-29.
67 Russell, "Reorganized Mormon Church Beset by Controversy," 771.
68 Larry W. Conrad, "Dissent Among Dissenters: Theological Dimensions of Dissent in the Reorganization," in Launius and Spillman, Let Contention Cease.
69 Lany W. Conrad to Roger D. Launius, 15 Jan. 1990.
70 Clare D. Vlahos, "Images of Orthodoxy: Self-Identity in Early Reorganization Apologetics," in Maurice L. Draper and Clare D. Vlahos, eds., Restoration Studies I (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1980), 176-86, quote on 176.

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