The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has twice issued Official Declarations to clarify significant doctrinal issues.[1] Official Declaration 1 was added to the church's official scripture, Doctrine and Covenants, in 1908; Official Declaration 2 in 1981.[2][1][3]

Both declarations came in response to controversies surrounding church policies (polygamy and the race ban, respectively) although in neither case did the declaration explicitly repudiate the doctrine as understood,[4] leaving decades to effect the full change the declarations proclaimed.[5][6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Woodford, Robert J. (December 1984), "The Story of the Doctrine and Covenants", Ensign: 32.
  2. ↑ Table of Contents of the Doctrine and Covenants, 1981 edition (current).
  3. ↑ "The New Publications of the Standard Works—1979, 1981" by Robert J. Matthews. Brigham Young University Studies. Vol. 22, No. 4 (Fall 1982). Accessed 7 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Confronting and Condemning 'Hard Doctrine,' 1978–2013" by Matthew L. Harris. Mormon Studies Review, University of Illinois Press, Vol. 7 (2020). Accessed 7 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Polygamy, Mormonism, and Me" by B. Carmon Hardy. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 41 No. 2 (Summer 2008), University of Illinois Press. Accessed 7 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "History Lessons: Race and the LDS Church" by Max Perry Mueller. Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 41 No. 1 (January 2015), University of Illinois Press and the Mormon History Association. Accessed 7 June 2020.
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