Church History Study Guide, Pt. 1, 1805-1832

by Randal S. Chase, Michael D. Chase (Editor)

Overview

This volume is the first of three on Church History and the Doctrine and Covenants. It covers Church history and the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants from the birth of Joseph Smith in 1805 through the beginnings of the Kirtland and Missouri periods. We learn concerning the First Vision, the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, the restoration of the priesthood, and many early revelations given to individual members of the Church. We study the organization of the Church in 1830 and the migration of the Saints to Kirtland, Ohio, where the law and order of the Church is given, the law of consecration begins, and spiritual gifts are manifested. We also read concerning the early events in Missouri, where the land of Zion is dedicated for the gathering of the Saints. In all, it covers 27 years of Church History, and covers sections 1-99 of the Doctrine and Covenants and the Joseph Smith History in the Pearl of Great Price. The cover features "Young Joseph," a painting of the Prophet Joseph Smith pondering in the Sacred Grove, by Walter Rane.

Table of Contents


Ch. Title Scripture Refs

1. Preface to the Final Dispensation (D&C 1)
2. D&C Testifies of Christ (D&C6;19;29;38;43;45;
50;76;93;133;136)
** NEW ENGLAND & NEW YORK PERIOD
3. Joseph Smith's First Vision (1820) (JS-HIstory 1-25)
4. The Book of Mormon (1820-30) (JS-H 26-68;
D&C 2-3;5;10;17)
5. The Spirit of Revelation (1827-30) (JS-H 69-75;
D&C 6-9;13;17)
6. Principles of Revelation (D&C6;9;11;29;43;50; 60-62;88;98;109)
7. First Principles & Ordinances (D&C8;11;14;18-20;22;27;29;31; 35;39;42;45;58;63;68;75;84;88)
8. Priesthood Restoration (1829-30) (JS-H 69-75; D&C 13)
9. Organization of the Church (1830) (D&C 19-24;26-28)
10. Revelations to Individuals (D&C23;25;29;38;61; 68;78;90;98;136)
11. Revelation:Missions/Converts(1829-30) (D&C 4;11-12;14-16;18;30-36)
** KIRTLAND & MISSOURI PERIOD
12. Gathering to Ohio & Missouri (1831) (D&C 37-45; 29)
13. Law & Order of the Church (1831-32) (D&C 41-59; 66-68)
14. Law of Consecration (1832) (D&C 82-83; 104)
15. Gifts of the Spirit (1830-32) (D&C 42; 46-50)
16. Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy (1831) (D&C 59)

** Special chapter providing additional information

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940014699976
Publisher:	Plain and Precious Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2011
Series:	Making Precious Things Plain , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	404
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Randal S. Chase spent his childhood years in Nephi, Utah, where his father was a dry land wheat farmer and a businessman. In 1959 their family moved to Salt Lake City and settled in the Holladay area. He served a full-time mission in the Central British (England Central) Mission from 1968 to 1970. He returned home and married Deborah Johnsen in 1971. They are the parents of six children—two daughters and four sons—and an ever-expanding number of grandchildren.

He was called to serve as a bishop at the age of twenty-seven in the Sandy Crescent South Stake area of the Salt Lake Valley. He served six years in that capacity and has since served as a high councilor, a stake executive secretary and clerk, and in many other stake and ward callings. Regardless of whatever other callings he has received over the years, one was nearly constant: he has taught Gospel Doctrine classes in every ward he has ever lived in as an adult—for a total of thirty-five years.

Dr. Chase was a well-known media personality on Salt Lake City radio stations in the 1970s. He left on-air broadcasting in 1978 to develop and market computer-based management, sales, and music programming systems to radio and television stations in the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. After the business was sold in 1984, he supported his family as a media and business consultant in the Salt Lake City area.

Having a great desire to teach young people of college age, he determined in the late 1980s to pursue his doctorate, and he received his PhD in communication from the University of Utah in 1997. He has taught communication courses at that institution as well as at Salt Lake Community College and Dixie State College of Utah for twenty-one years. He is currently a tenured full-time faculty member at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah.

Concurrently with his academic career, Dr. Chase has served as a volunteer LDS Institute and Adult Education instructor in the CES system since 1994, both in Salt Lake City and St. George, where he currently teaches a weekly Adult Education class for three stakes in the Washington area. He has also conducted multiple Church history tours and seminars. During these years of gospel teaching, he has developed an extensive library of lesson plans and handouts that are the predecessors to these study guides.