Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling

Name: Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling
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ISBN: 9781400077533

ISBN-10: 1400077532

ISBN-13: 9781400077533

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Lyman Bushman, Jed Woodworth

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Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church,Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rollingalso brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributionsto Christian theology and his cultural…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University.Reid L. Neilson is assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.Jed Woodworth is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.



List of Maps


Joseph Smith Chronology


Four Generations of Joseph Smith's Family


Preface


Prologue



The Joseph Smith Family: To 1816



The First Visions: 1816-27



Translation: 1827-30



A New Bible: 1830



The Church of Christ: 1830



Joseph, Moses, and Enoch: 1830



The Kirtland Visionaries: January-June 1831



Zion: July-December 1831



The Burden of Zion: 1832



Exaltation: 1832-33



Cities of Zion: 1833



The Character of a Prophet: 1834



Priesthood and Church Government: 1834-35



Visitors: 1835



Texts: 1835



Strife: August-December 1835



The Order of Heaven: January-April 1836



Reverses: April 1836-January 1838



Trials: January-July 1838



War: August-December 1838



Imprisonment: January-August 1839



Washington: September 1839-June 1840



Beautiful Place: April 1840-April 1841



Temporalities and Spiritualities: 1841



Stories of Eternity: Spring 1842



Perils: May-December 1842



Thickets: 1843



City and Kingdom: 1843-44



Confrontations: January-June 1844


Epilogue


Notes


Sources Cited


Illustration Credits


Index