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Guide Home > Early LDS History > Blood Atonement
Additional TopicsThe following are additional topic areas related to Blood Atonement. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth. FAIR ResourcesThese links are either to Web pages hosted on the FAIR Website, or to FAIR Papers. FAIR Papers are short articles about specific topics or questions, written by members of FAIR. These articles can be downloaded and read in PDF format and are intended to be distributed by e-mail or print for the general use of our patrons. (To read FAIR Papers you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.) Click on a title below to visit a FAIR Web page or to read the latest version of a FAIR Paper. "Blood atonement," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki article examines the critical claim that during the administration of Brigham Young, apostates were secretly put to death. They claim this is in line with the teachings of LDS leaders at the time that apostasy was the unforgivable sin, and that the only thing an apostate could do to redeem himself was to give his own life, willingly or unwillingly. Edward T. Jones, "His Blood Will Redeem Us: The Atonement According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Mormonism 201 (City Unknown: FAIR) Jones examines the LDS doctrine of the atonment and how Christ suffered both on in Gethsemane and on the Cross. Michael Parker, "Did Brigham Young Say that He Would Kill an Adulterous Wife with a Javelin?," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, November 2004) Anti-Mormon critics frequently comb through 19th century writings and sermons looking for comments that can be used to disparage Latter-day Saint leaders. Their goal is to persuade members, investigators, and those outside the Church that those leaders were undeserving of any claim to divine inspiration and that consequently the Church itself must be false. Such snippets can only achieve the intended shock value when pulled from their literary and cultural environments. One frequently-used comment was made by Brigham Young in 1865. In an address delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, President Young spoke of being able to put a javelin through an adulterous wife's heart. Standing alone, such as statement is shocking to readers today. What eager critics fail to do is to explain then context in which this was given, particularly the Biblical allusion to Numbers 25:6-15. In his paper, Parker discusses this and other statements involving "blood atonement" and shows how modern anti-Mormons misrepresent the statements of early Church leaders. Encyclopedia of MormonismThe resources listed below are articles available in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Lowell Snow, "Blood Atonement," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 131 Other ResourcesThe resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Bruce R. McConkie, Blood Atonement, Letter to Thomas B. McAfee. Letter to an inquiry on the doctrine of Blood Atonement, written and signed by Bruce R. McConkie. Russell C. McGregor, "Wild Bill Rides Again: The Tanners on the Danites," (March 1999) Analysis of an article about the Danites and Blood Atonement by Jerald and Sandra Tanner. B.H. Roberts, "Brigham's Blood Atonement," Compiled by Sam Katich (November 2002) B.H. Roberts reporting of miscellaneous events from the years 1851-1857 that deal with the topic of blood atonement and the 1889 Manifesto of the Presidency and Apostles that denounce the allegations of the practice.
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