Restorationist
Latter-day Saints
A 'who' answer nothing else on the axis gives: a lay priesthood held by most adult male members, with casting out devils among the things it is said to be for.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
The Doctrine and Covenants is a collection of revelations rather than a confession, and that is itself the body's central claim: authority rests on revelation given now, through a living prophet, rather than on a text settled long ago. Its sections on the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods define who may act.
What that produces on these axes is genuinely unlike anything else here. The priesthood is conferred on ordinary members rather than on a separated clergy, so authority to act is at once formally held — it is an ordination, not a gift claimed — and very widely distributed. Casting out devils appears among the signs the early revelations attach to that authority, and the earliest such account in the movement's own history dates to the year it was organised. No rite is reproduced here; what the corpus records is who a text says may act and on what footing.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
The restorationist impulse · 1830A claim of restored priesthood authority by angelic ordination and of continuing revelation to a living prophet, which no other body on this chart accepts and which makes every other question secondary.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Described from a text the corpus holdsContinuing, and tied to priesthood authority rather than to individual gifting.
The revelations treat signs as accompanying those who hold and exercise the priesthood, which locates the gifts in an order rather than in a personal endowment.
The Doctrine and Covenants · 1835
Who may act?
Described from a text the corpus holdsA holder of the priesthood — an ordained office, held by most adult male members.
Ordination is required, which is not the deliverance movement's answer; but the office is lay and near-universal among men, which is not Rome's either. This is the one point on the axis that neither end describes.
The Doctrine and Covenants · 1835
What counts as evidence?
Not established here. Where a tradition decides it is dealing with a spirit rather than an illness, a grief, or nothing at all.
Where is the spirit?
Not established here. All four inherit gospel scenes in which spirits are in people. What each adds beyond that is the largest difference between them.
Whom do the words address?
Not established here. A formal difference a reader can check by counting clauses rather than by weighing tone.
What restraint is written in?
Not established here. Every one of these traditions knows the practice can harm. What each does about that is what popular accounts leave out.
What closes the matter?
Not established here. Whether the encounter ends, and who declares it, separates a rite from an ongoing practice.
This page records what a body holds and where that is written down. It takes no position on whether any of it is true, and nothing here is instruction — the rites are described by what they contain, never as something to follow.