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Mormon founder Joseph Smith is one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century American history, and a virtually inexhaustible subject for analysis. In this volume, fifteen scholars offer essays on how to interpret and understand Smith and his legacy. Including essays by both Mormons and non-Mormons, this wide-ranging collection is the only available survey of contemporary scholarly opinion on the extraordinary man who started one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Joseph Smith collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Major Works: The Book of Mormon The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints The Pearl of Great Price The Lectures on Faith The Wentworth Letter General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States Speeches: King Follett Discourse The Priesthood—The Second Advent—The Gathering—Spiritual Ministrations and Manifestations The Constitutions of the United States and Illinois, etc. Character and Being of God—Creation—Salvation of the Dead —The Unpardonabl...
An introduction to the life and thought of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet-leader, focusing on his concept of spirituality and how that vision impacted upon Mormonism and thus the modern LDS Church.
Mormon founder Joseph Smith is one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century American history, and a virtually inexhaustible subject for analysis. In this volume, fifteen scholars offer essays on how to interpret and understand Smith and his legacy. Including essays by both Mormons and non-Mormons, this wide-ranging collection is the only available survey of contemporary scholarly opinion on the extraordinary man who started one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.
This book is a collection of testimonial accounts of those that new him and interacted with Joseph Smith Jr. the founder and first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It represents a true and accurate account of who and what the man was from those who knew him best.
Joseph Smith's writings and speeches "in his distinctive language--a mix of biblical and frontier idiom, ... both contemplative and poetic, angry and hyperbolic."
Few American religious figures have stirred more passion among adherents and antagonists than Joseph Smith. Born in 1805 and silenced thirty-nine years later by assassins’ bullets, he dictated more than one-hundred revelations, published books of new scripture, built a temple, organized several new cities, and became the proclaimed prophet to tens of thousands during his abbreviated life. Among his many novel teachings and practices, none is more controversial than plural marriage, a restoration of the Old Testament practice that he accepted as part of his divinely appointed mission. Joseph Smith taught his polygamy doctrines only in secret and dictated a revelation in July 1843 authorizin...
Americans of Joseph Smith’s day, steeped in the stories and prophecies of the King James Bible, certainly knew about plural marriage; but it was a curiosity relegated to the misty past of patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, who never gave reasons for their polygamy. It was long abandoned, Christians understood, by the time Jesus set forth the dominating law of the New Testament. But how did Joseph Smith understand it? Where did it fit in the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) predicted in the New Testament? What part did it play in the global ideology declared by this modern prophet who produced new scripture, new revelation, and new theology? During Joseph Smith’s lifetime, polygamy ...