Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors

by Val D. Rust

Val D. Rust's Radical Origins investigates whether the unconventional religious beliefs of their colonial ancestors predisposed early Mormon converts to embrace the (radical( message of Joseph Smith Jr. and his new church.

Utilizing a unique set of meticulously compiled genealogical data, Rust uncovers the ancestors of early church members throughout what we understand as the radical segment of the Protestant Reformation. Coming from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252029100
• ISBN13: 9780252029103
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"