Hearken, O ye people :the historical setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio revelations /Mark Lyman Staker.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Hearken, O ye people :the historical setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio revelations /Mark Lyman Staker.

Description

Ohio's "Mormonites" -- Black Pete -- The shout tradition and speaking in tongues in the black community -- Barton Stone, Alexander Campbell, and the foundations of Black Pete's religious involvement in Ohio -- Freedom and authority -- Owenites and the Morley community -- The Morley family in Kirtland -- The Book of Mormon comes to Ohio -- Black Pete and early Mormonite religious enthusiasm -- Dissension in Ohio's Mormonite family -- The law of the church -- Joseph Smith and the gifts of the Spirit -- The June conference and authority to discern religious ecstasy -- A new understanding of the gift of tongues in Kirtland and Missouri -- Consecration -- "To manage the affairs of the poor" : N.K. Whitney and company -- Sidney Gilbert as an independent entrepreneur -- N.K. Whitney & Co. -- The Whitneys and the Latter-day Saints -- Whitney's role as bishop -- At the Whitney store -- "It came from God" : the Johnson family, Joseph Smith, and Mormonism in Hiram, Ohio -- From Vermont to Ohio -- Hiram Township in Portage County -- Ezra Booth and the Johnson family -- The apostasy of Ezra Booth and Symonds Ryder -- Joseph Smith at the Johnson home -- Continuing revelation and the seeds of violence -- Reactions to "the Vision" -- The mobbing of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon -- Appendix : the mob's entry point on March 25, 1832 -- Las days in Hiram -- The Johnson family's epilogue -- Kirtland's economy and the rise and fall of the Kirtland Safety Society -- The foundation of Kirtland's economy -- The Lyman and Loud Mills, Arnold Mason's tannery, and the means to build a house of God -- A plan to get out of debt -- The Kirtland Safety Society -- The end of Kirtland's banking experiment -- Epilogue -- Appendix : sermons. xlii, 694 p. :ill., maps (some col.) ;26 cm.

Book Details

Author

Staker, Mark L.

Place Published

City

Salt Lake City, Utah

Date Published

circa 2009

Publication Subjects

Mormon Church--Ohio--Kirtland--History. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Ohio--Kirtland--History.

Call No.

BX8615 .O3 S73 2008

ISBN

9781589581135, 158958113X

LCCN

2008015335

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-651) and indexes.