Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet
Author | : Lucy Smith |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Lucy Smith |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Utah Christian Tract Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 199? |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
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Author | : Richard L. Bushman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
ISBN | : 9780197676547 |
"For two centuries investigators of all kinds have sought to understand Joseph Smith's gold plates. Newspaper editors, treasure-seekers, critics, novelists, artists, historians, missionaries, Church teachers have tried to explain their meaning. It has been difficult because there is nothing quite like the plates in either religious or secular history. Smith himself had trouble grasping what they were. He said an angel led him to the plates in 1823 and from them he translated the Book of Mormon, but that has been hard for outsiders to believe. Even today there is no agreed upon understanding of where the plates idea originated. One question has hovered over them from the start: were the plates real? Critics denounced Smith as a charlatan for claiming to have a wondrous object which he refused to show, while believers pointed to witnesses who said they saw the plates. Though heated at first, this debate has cooled in recent years. Apologists never made much of the witnesses, and, over time, outside scholars have focused more on how Smith came to believe the plates were real rather than their reality itself. After two hundred, years the mystery of the gold plates remains. Other than the original angel story, there is no clear explanation. At the end, the book asks how the gold plates figure in a class of inspired texts and holy objects that includes pseudepigrapha, relics, stone tablets, and Buddhist terma. The book concludes that none perfectly match the plates, but that perhaps the plates are best understood as one of them"--
Author | : Lyndon W. Cook |
Publisher | : Grandin Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : David Whitmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
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Author | : Douglas J. Davies |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2003-10-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780521817387 |
Although one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains a mystery in terms of its core beliefs and theological structure. This timely book provides an important introduction to the basic history, doctrines and practices of The LDS--the "Mormon" Church. Emphasizing sacred texts and prophecies as well as the crucial Temple rituals of endowments, marriage and baptism, it is written by a non-believer, who describes Mormonism in ways that non-Mormons can understand.
Author | : Brenton G. Yorgason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
ISBN | : 9781555031282 |
Author | : Dan Vogel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Kent P. Jackson |
Publisher | : Shadow Mountain |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Bibles |
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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 | : Grant H. Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Quote: 'Why would God reveal to Joseph Smith a faulty [mistranslated] KJV text?' Chap 4: (Evangelical Protestantism in the Book of Mormon) concludes that numerous theological issues addressed in the Book of Mormon probably derived from Smith's Upstate New York religious environment than from the claimed ancient gold plates. Chap 5: (Moroni and the Golden Pot) examines a long list of parallels between a published story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Smith's account of the angel Moroni's visits. The chapter concludes, 'It would stretch credulity to believe that this [long list of parallels between Hoffmann's Golden Pot story and Smith's Moroni story] could be a coincidence, and I therefore think that a debt is owed to E.T.A. Hoffmann and the European traditions ... ' Chap.