Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling - Softcover

Bushman, Richard Lyman

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ISBN 10: 1400077532 ISBN 13: 9781400077533

Verlag: Vintage, 2007

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"Remarkable. . . . A tale that's as colorful, suspenseful and unlikely as any in American history...Bushman earns a place for his biography on the very short shelf reserved for books on Mormonism with appeal to initiates and outsiders, too."--The New York Times Book Review"A fascinating definitive biography. . . . Stirs deeper questions about American religious convictions and how they shape lives and culture." --The Christian Science Monitor"An exhaustively researched and beautifully written biography of Mormonism's enigmatic founder."--Christianity Today"Fascinating. . . .Bushman captures all the harrowing events of Smith's short life, rife with converts and cabals, while meticulously dissecting the revelations that continue to haunt the Smith story." --The Providence Journal"Well-researched and lucidly written. . . . An excellent source for learning about the Mormon faith." --The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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 Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1400077532
• ISBN 13: 9781400077533
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 784