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In Mormonism, Heavenly Mother or the Mother in Heaven is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. Those who accept the Mother in Heaven doctrine trace its origins to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The doctrine was not widely known, however, until after the movement's succession crisis upon Smith's death in 1844. The Heavenly Mother doctrine is mainly taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ,〔(Role of women in the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ ) (On menu on right of website, click on "Core Beliefs" and then click on "The Role of Women")] 〕 and branches of Mormon fundamentalism, such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The doctrine is not generally recognized by other faiths within the broader Latter Day Saint movement, such as the Community of Christ, where trinitarianism is predominant. In the LDS Church, the Heavenly Mother is sung about in church hymns and briefly discussed in church teaching manuals and sermons.〔"O My Father" (LDS hymn #292) refers to a mother in heaven. "Oh, What Songs of the Heart" (LDS hymn #286) refers to "heavenly parents", and "We Meet Again As Sisters" (LDS hymn #311) to "heav'nly parents". "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" mentions "heavenly parents". Various LDS Church curriculum materials refer to a Heavenly Mother. E.g.: ("Lesson 9: Chastity and Modesty" ), ''The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part A'' (2000); ("Chapter 2: Our Heavenly Family" ), ''Gospel Principles'', pp. 8–12 (2009); Spencer W. Kimball, ("The True Way of Life and Salvation" ), ''Ensign'', May 1978, p. 4.〕 == Origin of the theology == The theological underpinnings of a belief in Heavenly Mother is attributed to Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, who shortly before his death in 1844 outlined a controversial view of God that differed dramatically from traditional Christian consensus.〔See: King Follett Discourse, Smith 1844. Also: 〕 Smith's theology included the belief that God would share his glory with his children and that humans might become exalted beings, or gods and goddesses, in the afterlife. Although there is no clear record of Smith teaching about Heavenly Mother publicly, several of Smith's contemporaries attributed the theology to him either directly, or as a natural consequence of his theological stance. An editorial footnote of ''History of the Church'' 5:254, quotes Smith as saying: "Come to me; here's the mysteries man hath not seen, Here's our Father in heaven, and Mother, the Queen." In addition, a secondhand account states that in 1839, Smith had told Zina Diantha Huntington, after the death of her mother, that "not only would she know her mother again on the other side, but 'more than that, you will meet and become acquainted with your eternal Mother, the wife of your Father in Heaven'". In addition, members of the Anointed Quorum, a highly select leadership group in the early church that was privy to Smith's teachings, also acknowledged the existence of a Heavenly Mother.〔〔Orson Pratt 1876, p. 292; Wilford Woodruff 1875, pp. 31–32.〕 The ''Times and Seasons'' published a letter to the editor from a pseudonymous person named "Joseph's Specked Bird", in which the author stated that in the pre-Earth life, the spirit "was a child with his father and mother in heaven".〔Joseph's Specked Bird 1845, p. 892.〕 In 1845, after the death of Smith, the poet Eliza Roxcy Snow published a poem entitled "My Father in Heaven", (later titled "Invocation, or the Eternal Father and Mother", now used as the lyrics in the popular Latter-day Saint hymn "O My Father"), which acknowledged the existence of a Heavenly Mother.〔Snow 1845. See also: ; .〕 The poem contained the following language: Some early Mormons considered Snow to be a "prophetess".〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Harold B. Lee Library/Online Collections at BYU )〕 Later, church president Joseph F. Smith (a nephew of Joseph Smith) explained his own belief that "God revealed that principle that we have a mother as well as a father in heaven to Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith revealed it to Eliza Snow Smith, his wife; and Eliza Snow was inspired, being a poet, to put it into verse."〔 The doctrine is also attributed to several other early church leaders. According to one sermon by Brigham Young, Smith once said he "would not worship a God who had not a father; and I do not know that he would if he had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other."〔''Journal of Discourses'', vol. 9, p. 286〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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