Joseph Smith · Rough Stone Rolling
- Authors
- Bushman, Richard Lyman
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Tags
- biography , church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (mormon) , 19th century , religion , christianity , religious , history , united states , biography & autobiography
- ISBN
- 9780307426482
- Date
- 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.91 MB
- Lang
- en
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.*