Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)

The Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ), Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutlerite ), is a Mormon faith community, under the leadership of Alpheus Cutler ( 1784-1864 ) broke away in 1853 in the U.S. by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. It is headquartered in Independence, Missouri, where its currently the only municipality is located.

History

Alpheus Cutler, in 1833 joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was involved as a leading member of the church and as a stonemason instrumental in the construction of the first temple of the Church, the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1837 he was ordained by Joseph Smith to the elders. At the time of the death of church founder Joseph Smith in 1844, Cutler was just on a mission trip to the Indians. Even after the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, he continued his missionary work and missionary work, especially in the state of Kansas, as Brigham Young invited him to move to the newly founded Salt Lake City. Cutler followed initially Brigham Young, however, was in 1852 with fellow church members, who opposed a move to Salt Lake City is adverse, in the state of Iowa, where she founded the settlement of Manti. Here services were held under the direction of Cutler. Broke with Brigham Young came partly because of the question of polygamy. On September 19, 1853 Cutler founded in Manti, which then consisted of about 30 families, his own church, and gave it the name of True Church of Jesus Christ (True Church of Jesus Christ). Later, she was in The Church of Jesus Christ ( The Church of Jesus Christ) and renamed under the name of The Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) ( The Church of Jesus Christ, Cutlerites ) known. The number of members of the Church reached its peak in 1859 with 183. However, after the establishment of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( now Community of Christ) left many of them the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) and joined the Reorganized Church.

After the death of Alpheus Cutler on August 10, 1864, the seat of the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) was moved because of a vision by Clitherall in the state of Minnesota, where then relocated most of the members. The leadership of the church took over on June 30, 1867 Chauncey Whiting. 1870 was built in Clitherall a wooden church. Because of the activity of missionaries of the Reorganized Church in Clitherall changed again many members over to the Reorganized. After the death of Chauncey Whiting in June 1902, his son Isaac M. Whiting was President of the Church, and after his death in 1922 Emery Fletcher. The wooden church in Clitherall in 1912 replaced by a two-storey stone building. In October 1928 Fletcher founded a second congregation in Independence, Missouri, was there a new church building built in 1929 and moved the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) there. 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) had in the two communities in Independence and Clitherall total of another 30 members. As Emery Fletcher died in 1953, Alder Whiting President of the Church, 1958 was followed by Rupert E.Fletcher. His successor in 1975 Julian Whiting. In the years after the congregation disbanded in Clitherall, had in 1975 only two members, so that the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) consists only of a church in Independence.

Teaching

The Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) practiced a form of common property, the Order of Enoch ( Order of Enoch) is called. Polygamy, slavery, and after 1844 received from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints revelations they refused from the beginning. In their church building in Independence temple rituals are not in the open to the public held upstairs, similar to those that were practiced in Nauvoo. According to the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutleriten ) God exists in three different, separate beings, with God the Father and Jesus Christ as opposed to the Holy Spirit each have a body of flesh and blood.