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Author : William Edward Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Edward Hunter, Faithful Steward written by William Edward Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426483
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Joseph Smith written by Richard Lyman Bushman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.
Author : Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912920
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book In Heaven as It Is on Earth written by Samuel Morris Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound preoccupation with the specter of death. Revisiting historical documents and scripture from this novel perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin and meaning of some of Mormonism's earliest beliefs and practices. The world of early Mormonism was besieged by death--infant mortality, violence, and disease were rampant. A prolonged battle with typhoid fever, punctuated by painful surgeries including a threatened leg amputation, and the sudden loss of his beloved brother Alvin cast a long shadow over Smith's own life. Smith embraced and was deeply influenced by the culture of "holy dying"--with its emphasis on deathbed salvation, melodramatic bereavement, and belief in the Providential nature of untimely death--that sought to cope with the widespread mortality of the period. Seen in this light, Smith's treasure quest, search for Native origins, distinctive approach to scripture, and belief in a post-mortal community all acquire new meaning, as do early Mormonism's Masonic-sounding temple rites and novel family system. Taken together, the varied themes of early Mormonism can be interpreted as a campaign to extinguish death forever. By focusing on Mormon conceptions of death, Brown recasts the story of first-generation Mormonism, showing a religious movement and its founder at once vibrant and fragile, intrepid and unsettled, human and otherworldly. A lively narrative history, In Heaven as It Is on Earth illuminates not only the foundational beliefs of early Mormonism but also the larger issues of family and death in American religious history.
Author : Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190054247
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Joseph Smith's Translation written by Samuel Morris Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian "Book of Abraham" derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling showman. In addition, he rewrote sections of the King James Version as a "New Translation" of the Bible. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English scriptures, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whether one believes him or not, the discussion has focused on whether Smith's English texts represent literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, Smith's translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Brown argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics--especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of "as above, so below"--that provided an infrastructure for bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward "secular modernity." This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early Mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day.
Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803213
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Brigham Young written by Leonard J. Arrington and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people and his church for thirty years, who combined piety and the pursuit of power to leave an indelible stamp on Mormon society and the culture of the Western frontier. From polygamy to the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the attempted preservation of Young’s Great Basin Kingdom, we are given a fresh understanding of the controversies that plagued Young in his contentious relations with the federal government. Brigham Young draws its subject out of the marginal place in history to which the conventional wisdom has assigned him, and sets him squarely in the American mainstream, a figure of abiding influence in our society to this day.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Mormon Historical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myndee Joan Garrett
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504356241
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sacred Light written by Myndee Joan Garrett and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to be a source of Light for those who are questioning their faith. It is simply a tool to help you find your sacred spiritual path in Life. What do you believe to be true that is untouchable, beyond doubt? Investigating your own treasured truths is an excellent place to begin your journey of illumination. What I know for sure is that a crisis can be the greatest gift. It is during our darkest moments that we can become extremely conscious of the precious Light within us. Let your wounds from Life reveal your authentic self by being a place for your Sacred Light to shine through. Losing my religion and discovering a profound faith in myself as a mystical being has convinced me that the greatest Love, purest Peace, and holiest Light must come from within. Love, Peace, and Light must be known in the very being of your Soul as the truth, and essence, of who you are in order to bestow genuine Love, Peace, and Light to others. Be the Light you want to see shining in this world so it can be reflected in every Soul you encounter. Breaking away from the Mormon Church created within me a profound yearning to speak my truth boldly, to live my Life unapologetically and authentically, to follow my heart unashamedly, and to contribute to the healing, and the encouragement, of others who are also finding their own way through this miraculous, mystical mystery called Life.
Author : Mark E. Dixon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841760
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Hidden History of Chester County: Lost Tales from the Delaware and Brandywine Valleys written by Mark E. Dixon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ride. Eight years later in a West Chester courtroom photographic evidence was used for the first time. Soon after that the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds for the Flexible Flyer, America's original steerable sled. These are among the extraordinary stories too often lost to Chester County's history. From the humorous tale of the goat that ate a stick of dynamite to Ann Preston, M.D., leading her female medical students through a mob of enraged men, author Mark Dixon is sure to please with this beguiling collection of vignettes.
Author : George Dempster Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Faithful History written by George Dempster Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Mormon history has undergone a transformation as LDS scholars have debated how their church's story should be written. New Mormon Historians distinguish between what they believe is verifiable and what they suspect may be folklore, and they approach history from a variety of different academic and social perspectives. Mormonism has also become of interest to non-LDS scholars. This raises the question of whether outsiders can truly understand Mormons, and conversely whether insiders can achieve enough detachment to see themselves objectively, or whether this is even desirable. Does history have an inherent meaning beyond the scholar's particular viewpoint, and should a writer strive to understand another person's perspective, or is one's own subjective vantage all that is possible and ultimately what is important? The new Mormon traditionalists contend that objectivity is, in fact, impossible and that history is written with certain pre-understandings; also, that some viewpoints are superior based on spiritual insight, including a belief in God and in Joseph Smith as the prophet, and that one should not impassively report examples of faith but should actively promote them. In this compilation, the editor has assembled sixteen essays which represent all sides of this ongoing discussion.
Author : Donald Q. Cannon
Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Supporting Saints written by Donald Q. Cannon and published by Bookcraft, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orson Ferguson Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Edward Hunter, 1793-1883 written by Orson Ferguson Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Michael Quinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elder Statesman written by D. Michael Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young Reuben Clark struggled to gain an education in rural Granstville, Utah. Finally in 1890, at considerable inconvenience to his parents, he attended college in Salt Lake City, then Columbia University in Manhattan. Later he would become Undersecretary of State, Ambassador to Mexico, and counselor to three Mormon prophets. Quinn's revisitation of Clark's life might well be the last great biography of a twentieth-century Mormon leader.
Author : Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Family Fare written by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold B. Lee Library. Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Edward Hunter Collection written by Harold B. Lee Library. Department of Archives and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Religion and American Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith written by Joseph Smith (Jr.) and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1984 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Cecil Alter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Utah Historical Quarterly written by J. Cecil Alter and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of charter members of the society: v. 1, p. 98-99.
