Mormonism-Related Controversies: Kirtland, Ohio, Nauvoo, Illinois, Sonia Johnson, First Vision, Blood Atonement, Limited Geography Model (Paperback) - Taschenbuch

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 173. Chapters: Kirtland, Ohio, Nauvoo, Illinois, Sonia Johnson, First Vision, Blood atonement, Limited geography model, Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy, Anti-Mormonism, James Buchanan, YFZ Ranch, Mormonism and violence, Fawn M. Brodie, Black Hawk War, Succession crisis, Reed C. Durham, Bear River Massacre, Baptism for the dead, 1838 Mormon War, Mark Hofmann, Missouri Executive Order 44, List of the wives of Joseph Smith, Jr., Genetics and the Book of Mormon, Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt, Boyd K. Packer, Studies of the Book of Mormon, George W. Pace, Battle Creek, Utah, Salamander letter, The Story of the Latter-day Saints, Kinderhook plates, Mormon Reformation, Spalding-Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship, Carolyn Jessop, Liberal Party, Reed Smoot hearings, View of the Hebrews, Ann Eliza Young, List of Brigham Young's wives, September Six, Martha Beck, Patrick Edward Connor, Mormon sex in chains case, Children of Joseph Smith, Jr., Liberty Jail, Temple Lot Case, Kirtland Temple Suit, Grant H. Palmer, Lilburn Boggs, Sons of Perdition, Nauvoo Expositor, Fred Dubois, Short Creek raid, White Horse Prophecy, George P. Lee, King Follett discourse, Pace memorandum, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, Thomas Ford, Sheri L. Dew, Haun's Mill massacre, Paul H. Dunn, Joseph White Musser, Mormon Doctrine, Battle of Crooked River, Oliver Granger, Thomas W. Murphy, Lost boys, The Salt Lake Tribune, Ronald E. Poelman, Lucy Harris, Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, Joseph Fielding Smith, Rena Chynoweth, Far West, Missouri, Abner Cole, Mark Aldrich, William Adams Hickman, Mark Hill Forscutt, The Seer, Eli Houston Murray, Levi Williams, Eber D. Howe, Jacob C. Davis, Mormon Alliance, Sea Trek 2001, Stephen Williams, William N. Grover. Excerpt: The First Vision (also called the grove experience) refers to a vision that Joseph Smith, Jr. said he received in 1820 when he was fourteen years old, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, which his followers call the Sacred Grove. Smith described it as a personal theophany in which he received a forgiveness of sins. Smith's followers believe the vision reinforces his authority as the founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement. According to an account Smith told in the 1840s, he went to the woods to pray about which church to join but fell into the grip of an evil power that nearly overtook him. At the last moment, he was rescued by two shining "personages" (presumably Jesus and God the Father) who hovered above him. One of the beings told Smith not to join any existing churches because all taught incorrect doctrines. Smith wrote several accounts of the vision beginning in 1832, but none of the accounts was published until the 1840s. Though Smith had described other visions, the First Vision was essentially unknown to early Latter Day Saints; Smith's experience did not become important in the Latter Day Saint movement until the early 20th century, when it became the embodiment of the Latter Day Saint restoration. The vision also replaced polygamy as one of the defining elements of Mormonism and corroborated distinctive Mormon doctrines such as the bodily nature of God the Father and the uniqueness of Mormonism as the only true path to salvation. Critics hold varying opinions about the true nature of the First Vision, believing it to be a dream, a hallucination, a self-deception, an intentional fabrication, or some combination of these. Joseph Smi...