The Founder of Mormonism
Author : Woodbridge Riley
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN :
Author : Woodbridge Riley
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN :
Author : Alvin J. Schmidt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780758640291
"Unveiling parallels between two self-proclaimed prophets"--Cover.
Author : Kent P. Jackson
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bibles
ISBN :
This volume--the work of a lifetime--brings together all the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript in a remarkable and useful way. Now, for the first time, readers can take a careful look at the complete text, along with photos of several actual manuscript pages. The book contains a typographic transcription of all the original manuscripts, unedited and preserved exactly as dictated by the Prophet Joseph and recorded by his scribes. In addition, this volume features essays on the background, doctrinal contributions, and editorial procedures involved in the Joseph Smith Translation, as well as the history of the manuscripts since Joseph Smith's day.
Author : Fawn M. Brodie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679730540
The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos. Map.
Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1631494872
Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.
Author : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release :
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN :
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1610393139
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-day Saints and creating his own “Golden Bible” – the Book of Mormon – he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He’d led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago. He was running for President. And, secretly, he had married more than thirty women. In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation – the doctrine of polygamy – created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. Mormonism is America’s largest and most enduring native religion, and the “martyrdom” of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational events. Smith’s brutal assassination propelled the Mormons to colonize the American West and claim their place in the mainstream of American history. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence, with deep roots in our national identity.
Author : D. Michael Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 9781560850892
In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in understanding how Mormons may have interpreted developments. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet.
Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 069114480X
Shows how Joseph Smith, Jr.'s influential Book of Mormon launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the planet.
Author : Woodbridge Riley
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN :