Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage

1987: Eugene England, “On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 20 No. 4 (1987): 138–154.

England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his words “worthy to build God’s kingdom.”