The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ...

has twice issued Official Declarations to clarify significant doctrinal issues..

Official Declaration 1 The 1890 Manifesto (also known as the Woodruff Manifesto, the Anti-polygamy Manifesto, or simply "the Manifesto") is a statement which officially advised against any future plural marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS ...

was added to the church's official scripture,

Doctrine and Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Ch ...

, in 1908; Official Declaration 2 in 1981. Both declarations came in response to controversies surrounding church policies (

polygamy Crimes Polygamy (from Late Greek (') "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is marri ...

and the race ban, respectively) although in neither case did the declaration explicitly repudiate the doctrine as understood, leaving decades to effect the full change the declarations proclaimed.History Lessons: Race and the LDS Church
by Max Perry Mueller. ''Journal of Mormon History'', Vol. 41 No. 1 (January 2015), University of Illinois Press and the Mormon History Association. Accessed 7 June 2020.

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Latter Day Saint statements of faith Doctrine and Covenants History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints {{lds-stub

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