Ebook: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

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: 1822-33 -- 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 -- Imprisonment: January-August 1839 00 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.;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. From the Trade Paperback edition.