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The sermon was not always viewed in a favorable light by leaders of the LDS Church [6] or other denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement. It was not published in the LDS Church's 1912 History of the Church because of then-church president Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy. [7]
The Journal of Discourses (often abbreviated J.D.) is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The first editions of the Journal were published in England by George D. Watt , the stenographer of Brigham Young .
The first volume of The Joseph Smith Papers, entitled, The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839, was released in December 2008. [13] Despite the $50 retail price, unexpectedly high demand caused the initial printing of 12,500 copies to sell out in two weeks, and the publishers to triple their projected second printing order to ...
The publication was the first to include such significant Latter Day Saint documents as The Wentworth Letter, [2] a construction of the King Follett Discourse, [3] the Book of Abraham [4] (which was later canonized in 1880 by the LDS Church as part of their Pearl of Great Price), the personal history of Joseph Smith, [5] and the announcement of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
Theodemocracy is a theocratic political system proposed by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.According to Smith, a theodemocracy is a fusion of traditional republican democratic principles under the US Constitution with theocratic rule.
Young and other adherents of the doctrine claim that Smith was its originator [14] and that Smith privately taught it to them before his death, in 1844. [15] However, the prevailing academic view is that the doctrine taught by Young and others was an elaboration of Smith's vague references to Adam's unique role in Latter Day Saint doctrine. [16]
Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, on the border between the villages of South Royalton and Sharon, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr., a merchant and farmer. [6] He was one of eleven children. At the age of seven, Smith had a bone infection and, after receiving surgery, used crutches for three years. [7]
There are many works relating to Joseph Smith. These works cover Joseph Smith 's his life, legacy, and teachings. Smith is the author of several works of scripture, and several personal histories, letters, and other writings.