Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
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Description
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.
ISBN
9781400077533
Publication Date
3-13-2007
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
City
New York
Keywords
Mormonism, history, religion
Disciplines
Christian Denominations and Sects | History | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Recommended Citation
Bushman, Richard. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2007
