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The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon ...


The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon ...

dency many of us have to superimpose upon past gen- erations our own patterns of thought and perceptions of reality. This is partly the result of giving too ...

Raising the Stakes: How Joseph Smith's First Vision Became All or ...

Allen, “Emergence of a Fundamental: The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon Reli- gious Thought,” Journal of Mormon History ...

The Significance of Joseph Smith's “First Vision” in Mormon Thought

The First Vision, according to the Mormon prophet, came as a result of his prayerful inquiry concerning which church to join. He was forbidden to join any ...

How Joseph Smith's First Vision Changed over Time

The pamphlet takes you from 1820 (the year the LDS Church claims Smith received the revelation) to 1888, noting how Smith's vision is portrayed ...

The First Vision: A Narrative from Joseph Smith's Accounts

In spring 1820, 14-year-old Joseph Smith prayed in faith and was answered by God and Jesus Christ in person. This remarkable vision is foundational to Latter- ...

The Significance of the First Vision - Pearl of Great Price Central

The accounts of the First Vision left by Joseph Smith establish the basic details of this supremely important historical experience.

Joseph Smith's Changing First Vision Accounts

The official account of this first vision found in Mormon Scripture (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith — History, 1:14-20) was not recorded by ...

Why are there multiple accounts of the First Vision and what can we ...

The First Vision is arguably the most important event in the history of both Joseph Smith and the rise of Mormonism.

The Significance of the First Vision | Chad's Random Musings

The First Vision taught and confirmed many of the most significant and distinct truths of the Restoration to the Prophet Joseph Smith.

The First Vision of Joseph Smith FAQ - FromtheDesk.org

The Latter-day Saint apostle, Orson Hyde, drafted an account of Joseph Smith's First Vision in the early 1840s. After sharing the account of ...

Joseph Smith's First Vision - Mormon Handbook

In the official version promoted by his church, Mormons are taught that a local revival motivated a teenage Joseph Smith to pray about which church to join.

How will you study Joseph Smith's First Vision - Steven C. Harper

The combination of seeking by study and by faith enables seekers to discern whether Joseph's accounts tell the truth. The foremost historians of ...

Journal of Mormon History Vol. 7, 1980

The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture Timothy L. Smith, 3 --Joseph Smith's First Vision: The RLDS Tradition Richard P. Howard, 23 --Literary Form and ...

Joseph Smith's First Vision - MormonThink

The First Vision is the foundational event of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, occurring in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith was a teen.

Gospel Topics Essay: First Vision Accounts

Joseph Smith recorded that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in a grove of trees near his parents' home in western New York State when he was ...

Joseph Smith and “The” “First” “Vision” - wasmormon.org

They show that the mormon doctrine evolved as much as the stories. This doctrine evolution can also be seen in the changes to the Book of Mormon ...

The 'First Vision' most Latter-day Saints know little about

Joseph Smith's “First Vision,” as it is known to the 16.3 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the basis of ...

Questions About Joseph Smith's First Vision Accounts - Jeff Lindsay

In the spring of 1820, a young teenage boy, Joseph Smith, Jr., struggled with religious issues stirred by revival activity in the frontier ...

An overlooked text supporting Joseph Smith's First Vision consistency

Most notably, this account refers to Joseph seeing “the Lord” — Jesus Christ — without specifying that he also encountered God the Father. This ...

Joseph Smith and the Structure of Mormon Identity - Dialogue Journal

In 1838, Joseph Smith reduced to written form the sacred experience which led him to establish Mormonism.[1] his narrative relates a series of heavenly ...