079 What If the Church President Can't Serve Due to Poor Health?

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Between the presidencies of Lorenzo Snow in 1898 and Russell M. Nelson today, there have been a few key clarifications relative to the inner workings of Church government at the level of the Church presidency. And on today’s episode of Church History Matters we want to talk about them! The first of these clarifications deals with the confusion introduced during Joseph F. Smith’s presidency surrounding the role and position of the presiding Church Patriarch within the Church’s hierarchy. The second is regarding the important question about who can serve in the First Presidency? Is it entirely the prerogative of the President of the Church to choose who serves as his counselors, or are there constraints in place which he must abide by when doing so? And the third clarification deals with what happens when you have a Church president who is incapacitated due to poor health, and therefore cannot actively lead the Church? To what degree can his counselors lead the Church without him? And what, if any, restraints are there to their authority in this circumstance? For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott from Church History Matters.
0:02.8	Before we pivot in this series to covering a few of the other branches of the
0:06.7	Restoration, we want to hear your questions about succession in the Church of Jesus Christ
0:11.3	of Latter-day Saints.
0:12.9	So next week we will be honored to have with us
0:15.1	a special guest to help us respond to your questions,
0:18.5	Dr. Daniel C. Peterson.
0:20.7	He's an author and scholar on a variety of Latter-day Saint topics, and he's the president of the interpreter foundation, which publishes and promotes LDS scholarship.
0:30.0	And we wanted to bring Dr. Peterson on to the show as well because the interpreter foundation is about to release a full length feature film on the succession crisis of 1844.
0:40.0	He is a deep well of knowledge, so please do us all a favor by submitting your thoughtful questions.
0:46.3	You can submit them anytime up to September 5, 2024 to podcasts at scripture Central.org.
0:53.0	Let us know your name, where you're from, and try to keep each question as concise as possible
0:57.6	when you email them in.
0:59.0	That helps out a lot.
1:00.0	Okay, now on to the episode.
1:05.0	Between the Presidencies of Lorenzo Snow in 1898 and Russell M. Nelson today.
1:14.3	There have been a few key clarifications
1:17.8	relative to the inner workings of church government
1:20.5	at the level of the church presidency.
1:23.1	And on today's episode of Church History Matters,
1:25.9	we want to talk about them.
1:28.0	The first of these clarifications
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