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Hallo, ich bin's wieder.
Wer war Joseph Smith? Bitte schreibt schnell.
LG, und danke schon mal im Voraus,coolibri
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Hallo -
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born Dec. 23, 1805, Sharon, Vt., U.S.
died June 27, 1844, Carthage, Ill.
originally Joseph Smith, Jr. American prophet whose writings, along with the Bible, provide the theological foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Mormon denominations.
Smith grew up in western New York at a time of intense religious revivalism. He was a literate but unschooled lad from a large family, and his neighbours at Palmyra, N.Y., remembered him as a diviner who dug for buried treasure. One day in the woods, at the age of 14, Joseph Smith experienced what he conceived to be an intense spiritual revelation of God and Jesus Christ. In 1827 he claimed that an angel had directed him to buried golden plates whose engraved surfaces contained a history of the American Indians describing them as descendants of Hebrews who centuries earlier had sailed to North America by way of the Pacific. This Book of Mormon he translated from “reformed Egyptian” with the aid of special stones. Published in 1830, the book was offered by him as scientific evidence of his divine calling. Most non-Mormon scholars, however, regard the book as a collection of local legends of Indian origin, fragments of autobiography, and current religious and political controversies (especially that connected with the Anti-Masonic movement), all transformed with remarkable ingenuity into a religious document.
Smith claimed that the church that he organized on April 6, 1830, at Fayette, N.Y., restored the ancient, primitive Christian religion.The converts whom it attracted during the next decade followed him from New York to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. But they were forced to press continually westward in search of economic opportunity and freedom from persecution. Their successive neighbours were suspicious of the Mormons' unorthodox cooperative society ruled by an ecclesiastical oligarchy.
Non-Mormons were also hostile toward the sect's rumoured practice of polygamy. Although Smith's revelation on this subject was not made public until 1852, nor is it supported in the Book of Mormon, there is evidence that he may have married as many as 50 wives. Publicly, however, he acknowledged only his first, Emma Hale Smith, who bore him nine children.
The young prophet governed his people by announcing periodic revelations on widely divergent matters. He combined elements of Jewish and Christian mysticism with the goal of perpetual prosperity and sought to establish Mormonism as a complete way of life.
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