Mormon Doctrine
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966. Second Edition, First Printing. 856pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Two-toned green cloth with the title printed on the backstrip and a portrait of the Prophet Joseph Smith on the front board. Very good/Very good. Mild rubbing to extremities of jacket Closed tear to jacket's front panel. Brief inscription in ink on the front free endsheet. Item #11105
This encyclopedic explanation of LDS teachings first published in 1958, went through 60 printings, selling hundreds of thousand of copies. From the day it came off the presses, Mormon Doctrine was at once wildly popular to many and deeply troubling to more than a few, even at the highest levels of the Mormon Church. Several passages about the Roman Catholic Church and McConkie's views of black people were seen as especially offensive. Although McConkie, and LDS apostle who died in 1985, took sole responsibility from the start for Mormon Doctrine's content, it often was quoted over the pulpit and treated by members as quasi-official.
"Despite the fact that the author wrote this before being called to officialdom, and that the book has never been claimed to be official doctrine, McConkie's encyclopedic work on the doctrines and beliefs of the Church did much to solidify his position in the front rank of Mormon scriptorians." - Collectible Mormon Books 15.
Price: $200.00