Mysteries of Godliness A History of Mormon Temple Worship

Providing a fascinating chronology of developments associated with Latter-day Saint temples and temple ordinances, this source book discusses the origins of the temple concept, comparative rituals, and changes in ceremonies. Buerger charts the abandonment of the adoption sealing which once linked unrelated families and examines the near disappearance of the second anointing, once considered the crowning ordinance of the temple.Buerger, David John is the author of 'Mysteries of Godliness A History of Mormon Temple Worship' with ISBN 9781560850427 and ISBN 1560850426.