The Life Of Joseph Smith
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Author | : Fawn M. Brodie |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-08-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : George Q. Cannon |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The life of Joseph Smith, the prophet is a biography by George Q. Cannon. It depicts the life of Joseph Smith Jr., religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.
Author | : Lucy Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1853 |
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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 | : Lucy Smith |
Publisher | : Bookcraft, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : 9781570082672 |
From the original "Preliminary Manuscript" dictated by Lucy Smith to her scribe, Martha Coray.
Author | : Robert D. Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A troubled childhood. A difficult adolescence. How might these have affected the adult character of church founder Joseph Smith? Psychiatrist Robert D. Anderson explores the impact on young Joseph of his family's ten moves in sixteen years, their dire poverty, especially after his father's Chinese export venture failed, and his father's drinking. It is equally significant, writes Anderson, that Joseph's mother suffered bouts of depression. For instance, "for months" she "did not feel as though life was worth seeking" after two sisters died of tuberculosis and later when she buried two sons, Ephraim and Alvin. A typhoid epidemic nearly claimed her daughter Sophronia, and the same affliction left Joseph with a crippled leg, after which he was sent to live on the coast with an uncle. Such factors and others produced emotional wounds that emerged later in the prophet's life and writings, in particular, according to Anderson, in the Book of Mormon.
Author | : George Quayle Cannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : Jane Barnes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1101597178 |
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 Lloyd Dewey |
Publisher | : Stratford Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780929753157 |
Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, was one of the most colorful and controversial American figures of the nineteenth century-so controversial, in fact, that to this day it is nearly impossible to find an unbiased account of his career. This book is an honest attempt to give a full pciture of the man behind all the controversy; to acquaint the reader with the man who was-and continues to be-hailed as a prophet or dismissed out of hand.
Author | : Roger D. Launius |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252065156 |
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.