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Mormonism
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- You're not a Catholic or a Mormon, are you?†
Chpt 8. *Mormon = of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830
- Tait was a Mormon, educated at Brigham Young University and Stanford Medical School, who had joined the navy because he had wanted to see more of the world than one could from an office at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains.†
Chpt 10.
- As a Mormon, Tait avoided everything with caffeine—coffee, tea, even cola drinks—and though this type of self-discipline was unusual for a physician, to say nothing of a uniformed officer, he scarcely thought about it except on rare occasions when he pointed out its longevity benefits to his brother practitioners.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Mormonism) religious that grew from the teachings of Joseph Smith in the 1800s, especially the beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsMormonism began in the United States in the early 1800s, when Joseph Smith said he received revelations from God and translated the Book of Mormon, which Latter-day Saints accept as scripture alongside the Bible. It is often described as a restorationist form of Christianity—teaching that the original Christian church and its authority were lost and then restored through Joseph Smith.
Today, the largest Mormon group is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members follow additional scriptures (such as the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price), emphasize family life and missionary work, and have distinctive beliefs about eternal families and life after death.
In the past, "Mormonism" and "Mormons" were common labels, but church leaders now encourage the use of the full church name and the term "Latter-day Saints" instead, and some prefer not to use "Mormonism" for their faith at all. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)