Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites)
The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) , Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) , is a Mormon denomination that split off in the United States in 1853 under the leadership of Alpheus Cutler (1784–1864) from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Its headquarters are in Independence , Missouri , where its only community is currently located.
history
Alpheus Cutler, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833, was instrumental in building the Church's first temple, the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois , as a church leader and stonemason . In 1837 he was ordained an elder by Joseph Smith. At the time of church founder Joseph Smith's death in 1844, Cutler was on a missionary trip to the Indians. Even after the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo, he continued his missionary work and was missionary in the state of Kansas when Brigham Young invited him to move to the newly established Salt Lake City . Cutler initially followed Brigham Young but settled in Iowa in 1852 with other church members who opposed relocation to Salt Lake City , where they established the Manti Settlement. Worship services were held here under the direction of Cutler. The break with Brigham Young came among other things because of the question of polygamy . On September 19, 1853 founded Cutler in Manti, which consisted at that time of about 30 families, his own church, and gave it the name True Church of Jesus Christ (True Church of Jesus Christ) . Later, she was in Church of Jesus Christ ( The Church of Jesus Christ ) and renamed under the name Church of Jesus Christ (Cutleriten) ( The Church of Jesus Christ, Cutlerites known). The membership of the Church peaked at 183 in 1859. However, after the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now the Fellowship of Christ ) was established, many of them left the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites) and joined the Reorganized Church.
After Alpheus Cutler's death on August 10, 1864, the seat of the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites) was moved to Clitherall in the state of Minnesota because of a vision , where most of the members subsequently moved. Chauncey Whiting assumed leadership of the Church on June 30, 1867. In 1870 a wooden church was built in Clitherall. Because of the work of missionaries in the Reorganized Church in Clitherall, many members again moved to the Reorganized. After Chauncey Whiting's death in June 1902, his son Isaac M. Whiting became President of the Church, and after his death in 1922, Emery Fletcher. The wooden church in Clitherall was replaced by a two-story stone building in 1912. In October 1928 Fletcher planted a second congregation in Independence, Missouri , had a new church building there and moved the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites) there in 1929. In 1945 the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites) had a total of 30 members in the two congregations in Independence and Clitherall. When Emery Fletcher died in 1953, Erle Whiting became President of the Church, followed by Rupert E. Fletcher in 1958. His successor was Julian Whiting in 1975. In the following years the congregation in Clitherall dissolved, which in 1975 only had two members, so that the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites) only consists of one congregation in Independence.
Teaching
The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutleriten) practiced a form of communal property, the order of Enoch (Order of Enoch) is called. From the beginning she rejected polygamy, slavery, and the revelations received from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after 1844 . In their church building in Independence, temple rituals similar to those practiced in Nauvoo are held on the upper floor, which is not open to the public. According to the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerites), God consists of three different, separate beings, whereby God the Father and Jesus Christ, in contrast to the Holy Spirit, each have a body made of flesh and blood.