A chapter by Scott C. Esplin, a Brigham Young University professor of Church history and doctrine, in Civil War Saints, edited by Kenneth L. Alford (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2012), pages 41 to 59. It traces how Doctrine and Covenants 87 was used from its 1832 dictation through the Civil War and into the twentieth century: it quotes the May 5, 1861 Philadelphia Sunday Mercury reprint of the revelation asking "Have we not had a prophet among us?", quotes several nineteenth century Latter-day Saint leaders citing the war as its fulfillment, and documents that church teaching later broadened the revelation's scope toward twentieth century global conflicts rather than defending its more specific, unfulfilled predictions. Published by a Brigham Young University and Deseret Book imprint about the church's own prophecy; read here directly, not assumed from a summary.
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Scott C. Esplin's chapter in Civil War Saints, published by the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book in 2012, the lower tier reflecting a Brigham Young University and Deseret Book imprint publication about the church's own prophecy, tracing how Doctrine and Covenants 87 was used from 1832 through the Civil War and documenting that church teaching later broadened the revelation's scope toward twentieth century global conflicts rather than defending its more specific, unfulfilled predictions. NotesTiered as the tradition's own account, matching Family Radio's own 2011 acknowledgment and the Watch Tower Society's own 1980 article already in this atlas, because it is published by a Brigham Young University and Deseret Book imprint about the LDS Church's own prophecy. Its own treatment is more even-handed than a defense: it supplies both the nineteenth century leaders' fulfillment quotes AND the plain statement that only a portion of the revelation was literally fulfilled, which is why it carries both an attested and a debated atom on this row rather than only one.
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AuthorScott C. Esplin
PublisherReligious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book (in Civil War Saints, ed. Kenneth L. Alford)
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://rsc.byu.edu/civil-war-saints/have-we-not-had-prophet-among-us-joseph-smiths-civil-war-prophecy
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This source names Global directly: "scope toward twentieth century global conflicts rather than defending its more specific, unfulfilled predictions."
This source names Mercury directly: "the May 5, 1861 Philadelphia Sunday Mercury reprint of the revelation asking "Have we not had a prophet among us?", quotes several nineteenth century Latter-day Saint leaders citing the war as its..."
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This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Prophecies, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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