This is not a separate work: it is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own Gospel Topics essay on plural marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo, one essay inside the same continuously maintained series this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that series rather than standing beside it, so citing this essay alongside the general Gospel Topics Essays record, or alongside another of its essays, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the series' own limit: an institutional self-account published on the church's own site, notable for what it concedes about the church's own history, but not independent historical or scientific assessment, which needs a source outside the church itself.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: the church's own institutional self account published on its own site, notable for what it concedes about its own history, though not independent historical or scientific assessment. NotesThe church's own published account of the beginning of plural marriage, issued in 2014. It acknowledges the number of Joseph Smith's plural wives, the sealings to women already married to other men, and the marriages to women in their teens, matters the church had previously addressed only obliquely. The tradition's own account, and a significant one because of what it concedes.
Citation
AuthorThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
PublisherThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Year2014
Source Typechurch body
Cross-Tradition Connections
Derived From
This record's own Title carries the parenthetical (Gospel Topics essay) and its Author is the Church itself rather than a named individual, for its essay on Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo; one essay inside the Church's own continuously maintained Gospel Topics Essays series, not a witness independent of it.
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 connected.
- Doctrines, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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