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In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry. In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch (see Patriarch (Latter Day Saints)). However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood. Other denominations, such as The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), have an evangelist position independent of the original ''patriarch'' office instituted by the movement's founder Joseph Smith ==Early Latter Day Saint movement== The first references to the term ''evangelist'' in Latter Day Saint theology were mainly consistent with how the term is used by Protestants and Catholics. In 1833, Joseph Smith introduced the new office of Patriarch, to which he ordained his father. The elder Smith was given the "keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.〔Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sec. 1, pp. 38-39.〕 The elder Smith, however, was also called to give Patriarchal blessings to the fatherless within the church, and the church as a whole, a calling he passed onto his eldest surviving son Hyrum Smith prior to his death. Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations. It is not known who first identified the term ''evangelist'' with the office of ''patriarch''. However, in an 1835 church publication, W. W. Phelps stated, :"()ho is not desirous of receiving a father's or an evangelist's blessing? Who can read the ancient patriarchal blessings, recorded in the bible, for the benefit of the church, without a heart filled with joy…?"〔W. W. Phelps (1835), (Messenger and Advocate ) 1(10): 146.〕 Joseph Smith also identified the term ''evangelist'' with the office of ''patriarch'' in 1839, stating that "an Evangelist is a Patriarch".〔Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith (1976), 151.〕 The necessity of an ''evangelist'' office in the church organization has been reinforced repeatedly, based on the passage in Ephesians 4:11, which states, "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers". In 1834, while writing what he called the "principles of salvation", prominent early Mormon co-founder Oliver Cowdery stated that: :"We do not believe that he ever had a church on earth without revealing himself to that church: consequently, there were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the same."〔Oliver Cowdery (1834), (Messenger and Advocate ) 1(1): 2.〕 Joseph Smith echoed Cowdery's statement in 1842, in a letter to a Chicago newspaper editor outlining the church's basic beliefs. Smith said that his religion "believe() in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists".〔Letter from Joseph Smith to John Wentworth, 1842, reprinted in Joseph Smith, ("Church History" ), ''Times and Seasons'' (Nauvoo, IL) 1842-03-01.〕 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「Evangelist (Latter Day Saints)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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