In Sacred Loneliness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Sacred Loneliness write by Todd Compton. This book was released on 1997. In Sacred Loneliness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith. These were passionate relationships which had some longevity, except in instances in which Smith's first wife, Emma, learned of the secret union and quashed it. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life.
In Sacred Loneliness
In Sacred Loneliness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Sacred Loneliness write by Todd Compton. This book was released on 2022. In Sacred Loneliness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph Smith's Polygamy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joseph Smith's Polygamy write by Brian C. Hales. This book was released on 2015. Joseph Smith's Polygamy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last several years a wealth of information has been published on Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy. For some who were already well aware of this aspect of early Mormon history, the availability of new research and discovered documents has been a wellspring of further insight and knowledge into this topic. For others who are learning of Joseph's marriages to other women for the first time, these books and online publications can be both an information overload and a challenge to one's faith. In this short volume, Brian C. Hales (author of the 3-volume Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology) and Laura H. Hales wade through the murky waters of history to help bring some clarity to this episode of Mormonism's past. As Joseph Smith's participation in plural marriage involved more than just the Prophet and his first wife Emma, this volume also includes short biographical sketches of the 35 other women who were sealed to Joseph but whose stories of faith, struggle, and courage have been largely forgotten and ignored over time. While we may never fully understand the details and reasons surrounding this practice, Brian and Laura Hales provide readers with an accessible, forthright, and faithful look into this challenging topic so that we can at least come toward a better understanding. Praise for Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding "Few matters of LDS history have proven to be as faith-sensitive as Joseph Smith's plural marriages. While a number of efforts have been made in recent years to shed light on this challenging phenomenon, nothing has brought greater clarity, enlightenment, and, particularly for believing Saints, spiritual reassurance, than has the work of researcher Brian Hales. He and his wife Laura have now rendered a monumental service to Mormons and interested observers by bringing clarity and better understanding to this topic. I for one am grateful for the context, perspective, and both straightforward and faithful answers provided for so many of the questions surrounding Nauvoo polygamy. It is a book that will be read and discussed for years to come." - Robert L. Millet, Professor Emeritus of Religious Education, Brigham Young University
A Widow's Tale
A Widow's Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Widow's Tale write by Helen Mar Whitney. This book was released on 2003-09. A Widow's Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series. Few diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history.
Nauvoo Polygamy
Nauvoo Polygamy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nauvoo Polygamy write by George Dempster Smith. This book was released on 2011. Nauvoo Polygamy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mormon Mormon polygamy began in Nauvoo, Illinois, a river town located at a bend in the Mississippi about fifty miles upstream from Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri. After church founder Joseph Smith married some thirty-eight women, he introduced this "celestial" form of marriage to his innermost circle of followers. By early 1846, nearly 200 men had adopted the polygamous lifestyle, with an average of nearly four women per man--717 wives in all. After leaving Nauvoo, these husbands would eventually marry another 417 women. In Utah they were the polygamy pioneers who provided a model for thousands of others who entered into plural marriages in the nineteenth century. Their story is colorful, wrapped in images of people in the next life piloting celestial worlds. Plural marriage was not initiated all at once, nor was it introduced though a smooth progression of events but rather in fits and starts, though defenses and denials, hubris and mea culpas. The story, as told here, emphasizes the human drama, interspersed with underlying historiographical issues of uncovering what has hidden--of explaining behavior that was once allowed and then denied as circumstances changed.
