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Glorious in persecution : Joseph Smith, American prophet, 1839-1844 / Martha Bradley-Evans.
Van Pelt Library BX8695.S6 B73 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley-Evans, Martha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.
- Smith, Joseph.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Presidents--Biography.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saints--United States--Biography.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 702 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : Smith-Pettit Foundation, [2016]
- Summary:
- Biographical study of the final five years of the life of Mormon Church founder and prophet Joseph Smith.
- Contents:
- A sustainable prophet
- Refuge
- The city beautiful
- Gathering in
- A hiding place from the tempest
- The new city steps out
- "A cheering aspect"
- A new design for heaven
- "our God will not wait always"
- Revelations from the lord
- "A traitor or a true man"
- Interlude: plurality and the experience of religious ecstasy
- "To keep a secret"
- The imagined space of heaven
- God's kingdom
- "Dead or alive"
- "The long looked-for place"
- Narratives for a new zion
- Interlude: an indispensable doctrine
- At work and at play
- Secrets
- A gathering storm
- Dissension
- Political ambitions
- The Nauvoo expositor affair
- Last days.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781560852643
- 156085264X
- OCLC:
- 927141365
- Publisher Number:
- 99967900965
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