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See Matthew C. Godfrey and Michael Hubbard MacKay, eds., Business and Religion: The Intersection of Faith and Finance (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2019).
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見主題:獻納律法及管家職務。
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教義和聖約第41篇;第42篇;見主題:合一事務所(合一體制)。See also Max H Parkin, “Joseph Smith and the United Firm: The Growth and Decline of the Church’s First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832–1834,” BYU Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (2007), 4–66; Nathan B. Oman, “‘Established Agreeable to the Laws of Our Country’: Mormonism, Church Corporations, and the Long Legacy of America’s First Disestablishment,” Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 36, no. 2 (2021), 212–13.
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Amanda Porterfield, John Corrigan, and Darren E. Grem, eds., The Business Turn in American Religious History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 4–8; see also Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen, “An Historiographical Overview of Early U.S. Finance (1784–1836): Institutions, Markets, Players, and Politics” (Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1999), 3–15.
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見主題:嘉德蘭安全協會;Oman, “Agreeable to the Laws,” 213–14。
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David W. Smith, “The Development of the Council on the Disposition of the Tithes,” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 2 (2018), 131–55.見主題:什一奉獻;亦見教義和聖約第120篇。
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Joseph Smith, “Appointment as Trustee, Nauvoo, Illinois, 2 February, 1841,” in Record Book of Mortgages, Title Bonds, Leases, Deeds of Trust and Sales of Personal Property, Hancock County, Illinois, vol. 1 (1840), 95, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appointment-as-trustee-2february-1841/1.
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James Hudnut-Beumler, In Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 10–14; Mark A. Noll, ed., God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 8–15, 271–82.
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Minutes, Nauvoo, Illinois, stand, Aug. 8, 1844, 7–8, Historian’s Office General Church Minutes, 1839–1877, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.
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See Samuel D. Brunson, “‘To Omit Paying Tithing’: Brigham Young and the First Federal Income Tax,” in Godfrey and MacKay, eds., Business and Religion.
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見主題:移民。
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John Taylor, Remarks, Oct. 7, 1877, in Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (London: Latter-day Saints’ Book Depot, 1854–1886), vol. 19, 122.
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見主題:立法反多妻制,合一體制,惠福·伍,朗卓·舒。See also Thomas G. Alexander, “Church Administrative Change in the Progressive Period, 1898–1930,” chapter 13 in David J. Whittaker and Arnold K. Garr, eds., A Firm Foundation: Church Organization and Administration (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 2011), 295–98; Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1958), 383–86, 400–9.
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Alexander, “Church Administrative Change,” 298–99; see also Charles W. Nibley, “The ‘Mormon’ Finance System,” The Improvement Era, vol. 16, no. 9 (July 1913), 941–43; Joseph F. Smith, Anthon H. Lund, and Charles W. Penrose, Letter to Reed Smoot, Sept. 7, 1916, in James R. Clark, ed., Messages of the First Presidency, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1965–1975), 5:36; “Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the ‘Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,’” June 1, 1917, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.
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See Joseph F. Smith, Tithing Report, 4 Apr. 1915, in Conference Report (Apr. 1915), 8–9; “Statistical and Financial Report—1958,” in Conference Report, Apr. 1959, 91–93.
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G. Homer Durham, N. Eldon Tanner: His Life and Service (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982), 208–9; John P. Livingstone, “N. Eldon Tanner and Church Administration,” chapter 21 in Whittaker and Garr, eds., A Firm Foundation, 485–501.
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James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard, The Story of the Latter-day Saints, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 657; Samuel D. Brunson, God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 147–68.
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Tad Walch, “Church Finances: Presiding Bishopric Offers Unique Look Inside Financial Operations of Growing Faith,” Deseret News, Feb. 14, 2020, https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/14/21133740/mormon-church-finances-billions-presiding-bishopric-ensign-peak-tithing-donations-byu-real-estate.
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後期聖徒慈善協會年度報告 https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/annual-reports/2021。
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Oman, “Agreeable to the Laws,” 227, note 163.
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First Presidency, Statement on Church Finances, Dec. 17, 2019, https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-statement-church-finances.