Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess

by Richard S. Van Wagoner

Book Overview

In the late 1820s a fiery young minister in western Ohio converted nearly 1,000 proselytes to the Reformed Baptist Movement. As these schismatics organized themselves into the new Disciples of Christ church, the Reverend Sidney Rigdon was already aligning himself with another, more radical movement, the Latter-day Saints, where he quickly became the LDS prophet's principal advisor and spokesman. He served Joseph Smith loyally for the next fourteen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156085197X
• ISBN13: 9781560851974
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Signature Books
• Length: 493 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher