The Book of Resignation

Another Testament: Race, Culture, Power, and the Rejection of Mormon Authority

von V.

150 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when the pieces stop staying separate?The Book of Resignation: Another Living Testament is a source-backed statement of conscience from a former Latter-day Saint who spent decades carrying questions about Mormon history, race, culture, authority, family, and institutional power-until those questions finally connected.What began as personal doubt became an investigation.Drawing from official Church materials, historical records, court decisions, federal enforcement records, scientific research, journalism, and scholarship, V. examines the First Vision accounts, Joseph Smith's seer stone and treasure seeking, plural marriage, Mormon racial theology, Indigenous ancestry and Lamanite identity, Polynesian ancestry claims, missionary expansion, cultural assimilation, political influence, financial secrecy, abuse-response systems, and institutional accountability.But this is not simply a catalogue of controversies.At its center is a more fundamental question: Who has the right to define another human being's identity, history, culture, morality, worthiness, and future?Through family history, childhood experience, and a wider examination of Mormonism's encounters with peoples outside its white American founding culture, V. argues that very different histories repeatedly raise the same problem: the concentration of interpretive and moral authority in an institution claiming the right to speak for God.The decisive moment was what V. calls "the collapse of compartmentalization." Polygamy stopped being separate from prophetic authority. Racial theology stopped being separate from Indigenous identity. Missionary work stopped being separate from culture, economics, education, and institutional expansion. Separate doubts became a larger question about power, consent, credibility, and conscience.This book does not argue that every Latter-day Saint is malicious, nor does it demand that every reader reach the same conclusion. It is the record of one person following the sources, correcting claims that could not survive verification, and ultimately withdrawing the authority he once granted the institution."I no longer grant the Church the benefit of automatic deference, and I no longer consent to its authority over me."The Book of Resignation is that decision-and the evidence, history, family story, and moral reasoning that led to it.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798194756131
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published