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Author : John Henry Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Mormons
ISBN : PSU:000014246852
Author : Joseph Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015017977037
For the first time, the unexpurgated diaries of the Mormon church founder, Joseph Smith, are presented, including references to wine, women, the church, accounts of the First Vision, and early rituals.
Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252065158
This interesting, well-researched biography of the founder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints covers the 54 years of his presidency, a tenure marked by Mormon factionalism that he succeeded in controlling. The son of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith III at first resisted succeeding his father as leader and prophet but, as his biographer underscores, his governance from 1860 until his death in 1914 was fiercely committed to the religious legacy of his parent. Differing in style from the elder Smith's "sometimes disastrous impracticality," his son exemplified rugged individualism with a secular pragmatism that sprang from his legal education. An opponent of polygamy, as proclaimed by Brigham Young, the younger Smith established a viable bureaucracy and a style of leadership that characterizes the Mormon community today, notes the author, a military historian.
Author : Scott H Faulring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0685373940
Author : Dan Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114301273
A psychological biography of Joseph Smith presents a comprehensive account of his life, set against a backdrop of theology, local and national politics, Smith family dynamics, organizational issues, and interpersonal relations.
Author : Jane Barnes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101597170
When award-winning documentary film writer Jane Barnes was working on the PBS Frontline/American Experience special series The Mormons, she was surprised to find herself passionately drawn to Joseph Smith. The product of an Episcopalian, “WASPy” family, she couldn’t remember ever having met a Mormon before her work on the series—much less having dallied with the idea of converting to a religion shrouded in controversy. But so it was: She was smitten with a man who claimed to have translated the word of God by peering into the dark of his hat. In this brilliantly written book, Barnes describes her experiences working on the PBS series as she moved from secular curiosity to the brink of conversion to Mormonism. It all began when she came across Joseph Smith's early writings. She was delighted to discover how funny and utterly unique he was—and how widely divergent his wild yet profound visions of God were from the Church of Latter-day Saints as we know it today. Her fascination deepened when, much to her surprise, she learned that her eighth cousin Anna Barnes converted to Mormonism in 1833. Through Anna, Barnes follows her family’s close involvement with Smith and the crises caused by his controversial practice of polygamy. Barnes’ unlikely path helps her gain a newfound respect for the innovative American spirit that lies at the heart of Mormonism—and for a religion that is, in many ways, still coming into its own. An intimate portrait of the man behind one of America’s fastest growing religions, Falling in Love with Joseph Smith offers a surprising and provocative window into the Mormon experience.
Author : Richard S. Van Wagoner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1560852968
Author : Richard S. Van Wagoner
Publisher : Smith Research Associates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1560852631
Joseph Smith survives today as one of nineteenth-century America's most controversial religious figures. He claimed visions of angels, dictated a lost record of the ancient inhabitants of the New World, announced new revelations from heaven, and restored what he believed was an ancient yet more complete form of Christianity, over which he presided as prophet, seer, and revelator until his death in 1844. A child of impoverished Yankees, raised in rural New England and New York, Smith grew up in a hardscrabble frontier culture that embraced a spectrum of competing folkways, religious fervor, and intellectual thought. He was both a product of his times and a syncretic innovator of a compelling vision for God's people. Perhaps more importantly, he was the self-proclaimed herald of Christ's imminent return, called by the Father to reveal the fullness of the Christian gospel for the last time. As prize-winning historian Richard S. Van Wagoner narrates the first twenty-five years of Smith's life, the young seer struggled with his family through a series of roller-coaster hardships, eventually securing work as a scryer of lost treasure and money digger. In the wake of successive failures, including run-ins with the law, Smith's glass-looking activities gave way to more religiously oriented pursuits, especially after a heavenly messenger showed him the location of buried golden plates containing a pre-Columbian story of the Americas and charged him with the record's decipherment and publication. Smith also learned, following another extraordinary vision, that his sins had been remitted, that humanity was in a state of apostasy, and that Jesus would soon return to the earth. After eloping with Emma Hale, much to her skeptical father's chagrin, the couple settled down to complete work on what would appear for sale in early 1830 as the Book of Mormon. By this time, Smith had begun to shoulder more fully the prophet's mantle, issuing proclamations in God's own voice, and on April 6, 1830, organized the Church of Christ, known today as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I treat the early years of the Mormon prophet as I would approach an archaeological dig," Van Wagoner explains. "The deepest levels, those deposited first and least contaminated by subsequent accumulates, are of primary interest in my pursuit of the historical Joseph. Mindful of the prophet's controversial reputation, I try to remain sensitive to the impact that some of the more problematic elements of his behavior may have on believers. But truth is often best evidenced in the detail." Van Wagoner's meticulously researched study offers more detail than any previously published biography of Smith, and provides what may be the most culturally nuanced analysis ever attempted of the early years of the American prophet.
Author : Spencer W. McBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190909413
"In 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers-and a militia of some 2,500 men. In this year, his priority was protecting the lives and civil rights of his people. Having failed to win the support of any of the presidential contenders for these efforts, Smith launched his own renegade campaign for the White House, one that would end with his assassination at the hands of an angry mob. Smith ran on a platform that called for the total abolition of slavery, the closure of the country's penitentiaries, the reestablishment of a national bank to stabilize the economy, and most importantly an expansion of protections for religious minorities. Spencer W. McBride tells the story of Smith's quixotic but consequential run for the White House and shows how his calls for religious freedom helped to shape the American political system we know today"--
Author : Solomon Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014400717
Author : B. H. Roberts
Publisher : Latter-day Strengths
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Did the American continent exist before Columbus discovered it? Yes. Did electricity exist before mankind learned how to utilize it? Of course. Has every truth to be discovered, been discovered? No. Is it possible that religious beliefs in the world today are incorrect? Yes! There are truths in God's universe that are now existing, and have always existed, but man, as yet, has no knowledge of them. So how does a person distinguish truth from error? Joseph Smith defined truth in this way, “Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come." As a prophet of God, who received revelation, Joseph Smith acting in the capacity of a teacher, taught the saints the truth of all things - clarifying misconceptions and false truths. For example, against the sectarian dogma of the cessation of revelation, Joseph Smith proclaimed the reopening of the heavens. Against the doctrine that angels would no more visit the earth, he asserted the visitation of angels to him, revealing the existence of the Book of Mormon, a new volume of Scripture. This book JOSEPH SMITH THE PROPHET-TEACHER, is a collection of truths taught by the prophet during his life. These topics include clarification on; revelation, heaven and hell, our relationship with God, the nature of God, man’s origin, eternal punishment, and the existence of good and evil, among many other topics. It may be asked, “What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen?” And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.
Author : Martha Bradley-Evans
Publisher : Smith Research Associates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 156085264X
Biographical study of the final five years of the life of Mormon Church founder and prophet Joseph Smith.
Author : Brigham Henry Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Latter Day Saints
ISBN : MINN:319510020679284
Author : Heidi S. Swinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Latter Day Saints
ISBN : LCCN:99023253
Author : B.H. Roberts
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732676996
Reproduction of the original: Joseph Smith by B.H. Roberts
