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In the Latter Day Saint movement, the second anointing, also known historically and in Latter Day Saint scripture as the fulness of the priesthood, is an obscure and relatively rare ordinance usually conducted in temples as extension of the Nauvoo Endowment ceremony. Founder Joseph Smith cited the "fulness of the priesthood" as one of the reasons for building the Nauvoo Temple. In the ordinance, a participant is anointed as a "priest and king" or a "priestess and queen", and is sealed to the highest degree of salvation available in Mormon theology. Those who participate in this ordinance are said to have their "calling and election made sure",〔: "The anointing and sealing is to be called, elected and made sure"〕〔 (discussing the result of "calling and election", but not referring to second anointing).〕 and their celestial marriage "sealed by the holy spirit of promise".〔 (defining "holy spirit of promise").〕 They are said to have received the "more sure word of prophecy". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, has performed the ceremony for nominated couples from the 1840s to at least the mid-1900s.〔: "Judging from his remarks seven years later, however, in a 1949 letter presented to the Coucil of the First Presidency and Twelve, (F. ) Richards still express frustration: "For a ling time I felt that I would like to express to you the disappointment I feel in that we have practically discontinued the administration of Second Anointing in the church…..” ”〕 Current information about the practice by that denomination, or whether the ordinance is still in use, has not been made public. The ordinance is also performed by many Mormon fundamentalist groups. However, it is not performed by denominations, such as the Community of Christ,〔Elbert A. Smith, (''Differences That Persist between the RLDS and LDS Churches ), (1950), website accessed 2008-06-11.〕 who historically never practiced the Nauvoo Endowment ceremony. ==History== Although Joseph Smith introduced the Nauvoo Endowment in 1842, he came to understand that his work in establishing the "fullness of the priesthood" was not yet complete.〔''History of the Church'', 5:139-40 (Aug. 31, 1842), speaking to the Relief Society.〕 In August 1843, church leader Brigham Young stated that "()f any in the Church had the fullness of the priesthood, he did not know it", nevertheless, Young understood that the "fullness of the priesthood" involved an anointing as "king and priest", with the actual kingdom to be given after resurrection.〔Journal of Wilford Woodruff, Aug. 6, 1843; also in History of the Church, 5:527.〕 The initial second anointing took place on September 28, 1843, when Joseph and his wife Emma Smith received it.〔Diary of Joseph Smith, 28 Sept. 1843; Wilford Woodruff, Historian's Private Journal (1858), p. 24 (LDS Archives).〕 During Smith's lifetime, the second anointing was given to at least 20 men and 17 women. After Smith was murdered by a mob in June 1844, Brigham Young was eventually selected as prophet of the LDS Church, and in January 1846, he began administering the second anointing in the nearly-completed Nauvoo Temple. Young re-administered the ordinance to many of those who had received it under Joseph Smith, and he delegated his authority to others, who performed nearly 600 second anointings (some to polygamous unions) before the temple was closed on February 7, 1846.〔 After migration to Utah, the LDS Church did not conduct further second anointings until late 1866.〔Journal of Wilford Woodruff, December 30, 31, 1866.〕 Beginning in the 1870s, second anointings were performed vicariously.〔 In the 1880s, then President of the Church John Taylor was concerned that too many second anointings were being performed, and he instituted a series of procedural safeguards, requiring recommendation by a stake president, and a guideline that the ordinance "belonged particularly to old men".〔 In 1901, President Lorenzo Snow further limited accessibility to the ordinance by outlining stringent criteria for worthiness.〔 By 1918, over 14,000 second anointings had been performed for the living and the dead.〔 During the administration of Heber J. Grant in the 1920s, however, the frequency of second anointings was dramatically reduced. Stake presidents were no longer allowed to recommend candidates for the ordinance, that privilege falling only to members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.〔 By 1941, just under 15,000 second anointings had been performed for the living, and just over 6,000 for the dead.〔 The church has not allowed historians to have access to second anointing records subsequent to 1941; therefore, the current frequency of anointings is obscure. However, it is known that in 1942, 13 of the church's 32 General Authorities had not received the second anointing.〔 By 1949, the practice had been comparatively "practically discontinued" by the LDS Church,〔 though until 1981 it may have continued "to be performed--albeit on a small scale".〔 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「Second anointing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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