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 |
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Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 199? |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
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Author | : Richard L. Bushman |
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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 |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
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Author | : J. Warner Wallace |
Publisher | : David C Cook |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1434705463 |
Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.
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 | : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Brenton G. Yorgason |
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Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Book of Mormon |
ISBN | : 9781555031282 |
Author | : Jeremy Runnells |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-04-17 |
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ISBN | : 9780998869902 |
CES Letter is one Latter-Day Saint's honest quest to get official answers from the LDS Church (Mormon) on its troubling origins, history, and practices. Jeremy Runnells was offered an opportunity to discuss his own doubts with a director of the Church Educational System (CES) and was assured that his doubts could be resolved. After reading Jeremy's letter, the director promised him a response.No response ever came.