The Doctrine and Covenants, mapped.
The revelations of this dispensation, read the way the wiki reads the rest of scripture: a page for the threads the sections carry — ordinances and offices, prophecies and places — each one cited where the text says it.
Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith the seer as the revelations' addressee: his gift, his fall and restoration, and the work that "shall go forth"
Oliver Cowdery the second elder: the gift of revelation, the attempt to translate, and the spirit of revelation defined
The Three Witnesses the promise, the condition of faith, and the testimony of three — beside the record's own witness texts
The Lost Writings the lost manuscript revelations: the work of God not frustrated, and the plates of Nephi standing ready
The Call to the Labor the marvelous work, the field white to harvest, and the shared section-openings of the calls
John the Beloved the tarrying disciple: the revelation's answer beside John 21 and the record's three Nephites
Endless Punishment Endless is the name, not the duration: the revelation's own explanation of its scripture words
Revelations Recorded Twice D&C 2 and 13 beside Joseph Smith—History's account of the same words, divergences laid down as fact
Emma Smith the corpus's one section addressed by name to a woman: the elect lady, her assignments, and the voice-unto-all close
Servants Named in the Calls the roster of every person the call revelations name, given exactly as the text gives them
The Missionary Charge the standing instructions of the sending: two by two, purse and scrip, the dust of the feet, and the sheaves
Commissions Revoked and Changed the revoking principle: callings given, made conditional, and taken back in the text's own words
The Two Priesthoods Melchizedek and Aaron: the greater and lesser orders, their reasons-why in the text's own etymology verses
Offices of the Church the duty lists of D&C 20 and 107, and the offices that stand outside them
The Order of the Church the church organized, under the commandments and under the laws of men
The Charge to the Ministry the standing charge sections: teach the scriptures, the new song, the family-support rules
The Councils of the Church the high council's minutes: procedure, lots, and the record the church keeps of itself
Common Consent all things done by common consent: the voting church in revelation and minutes
Gifts of the Spirit the gifts list of D&C 46 beside 1 Corinthians 12 and Moroni 10, three carriers of one catalog
Discerning the Spirits the tests the revelations give for telling spirits, and what is preached against what is received
The Order of Revelation who may receive for the church: the Moses comparison, the one-appointed rule, succession
The Twelve and the Seventy the modern quorums in the revelations' own words, beside — and distinct from — the record's twelve
Degrees of Glory the vision of the three glories: sun, moon, and stars in the text's own Pauline vocabulary
Sons of Perdition the only ones on whom the second death hath any power: the vision's hardest doctrine, quoted exactly
The Resurrection the trump sequence, the just and the unjust, and the record's first-resurrection language beside the revelations'
The Redemption of the Dead the 1918 vision: the spirit world opened, 1 Peter quoted by name, the mission among the dead
Light and Truth intelligence, light, and truth defined in the revelations' own equations
The Committing of Keys the messengers who came: Moses, Elias, Elijah, and the keys each verse names
Little Children and Accountability the revelations' answer on those who die before the years of accountability
The Word Sent to the Shakers the corpus's one revelation addressed to another church's doctrine, point by point
The Law of the Church section 42, the law the text itself names: commandments, consecration's first form, and the church's discipline
Consecration and Stewardship all these properties are mine: the order of stewardships, the storehouse, and the covenant's failure clauses
The Gathering to Zion the place and the going: land purchases, the city's site, and the gathering commanded and slowed
The Redemption of Zion Zion lost and promised again: the parables of her scattering and the conditions of her return
The Sabbath and the Fulness of the Earth the Lord's day, the oblations, and the earth's goods given with judgment
The Law of Tithing the standing law: one-tenth of all their interest annually, in the revelation's own words
The Dedicatory Prayer D&C 109: the Kirtland dedication, a prayer built from the revelations' own earlier words
The Houses Commanded the temples the revelations order built, with their conditions and consequences
Baptism for the Dead and the Record the ordinance, its recorder, and the epistles that cite Matthew by chapter and verse
Adversity and the Priesthood the prison sections: how long can thine hand, the powers of heaven, and the small helm
The Martyrdom Announcement section 135: the announcing report of the deaths, quoting the record it mourns
The Camp of Israel the order of the westward camp, deliberately thin where the text shares little
The Voice of Warning the preface: the Lord's own introduction to the book, and what it says the revelations are for
The Signs of the Coming section 45's Olivet retelling: the love of men waxing cold, the standard raised, the times of the Gentiles
The Kingdom Rolls Forth the stone cut without hands in the revelation's prayer form
The Revelation of John Explained section 77's Q&A on Revelation, with its citation offsets laid down as facts
The Wheat and the Tares the parable retold with the sowing re-ordered, beside Matthew 13
The Prophecy on Wars section 87 reported exactly, with fulfilment declined in both directions
The Day of the Lord the appendix: the red apparel, the bare arm, and the Isaiah fabric of section 133
The Word of Wisdom section 89 in its own words: the order, the promises, and what the text does and does not say
The Challenge to Write a Revelation section 67: the wisest man commanded to imitate the least revelation, and the outcome the text records
What Counts as Scripture the definition verse of D&C 68 and the Apocrypha ruling of 91
Questions on Isaiah section 113's question-and-answer on Isaiah, cited by chapter and verse
The White Stone section 130's question-and-answer verses: the stone of Revelation 2:17 named and rewritten, the two prophecies, and the reckoning of time
The School of the Prophets the named institution of D&C 88: the salutation word for word, the washing of feet, and the chapter of John it cites
Quotation and Attribution where a text names the prophet it quotes and the prophet's frozen book reads differently: the assembled Moses sentence, the Ezekiel naming, the law given to Nephi
Governments and Laws the we-believe declaration on governments, attributed by its own grammar
The Law of War and Forgiveness section 98: renounce war, the three-strikes forgiveness ladder, and the justified-and-rewarded clauses
The New and Everlasting Covenant section 132, quoted exactly where it meets Jacob 2 and states the opposite verdict
The Day of Transfiguration the earth's coming change in section 63's own figures
Sign-Seeking signs follow faith, not the reverse: 63's ruling beside the record's Korihor and Sherem
The Book of the Law of God section 85: the record kept, the steward's ledger, and the one mighty and strong
Chastening whom I love I also chasten: 95 and 106 beside the corpus's chastening verses
Adam-ondi-Ahman the place the revelations name, with Daniel cited by name
Taking the Name in Vain 63:60-64: the name spoken without authority, beside Exodus 20:7