Exploring the First Vision
By: edited by Samuel Alonzo Dodge and Steven C. Harper
Publisher: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Provo, Utah; Salt Lake City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780842528184
Subjects: Mormon Church; Doctrines; First Vision; Church history; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph Smith's First Vision : insights and interpretations in Mormon historiography / Samuel Alonzo Dodge; title: The earliest documented accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision / Dean C. Jessee; title: The Appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith in 1820 / James B. Allen and John W. Welch; title: Joseph Smith's accuracy on the First Vision setting : the pivotal 1818 Palmyra camp meeting / Richard Lloyd Anderson; title: Awakenings in the burned-over district : new light on the historical setting of the First Vision / Milton V. Backman, Jr.; title: Reverend George Lane; title: good "gifts," much "grace," and marked "usefulness" / Larry C. Porter; title: Emergence of a fundamental : the expanding role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon religious thought / James B. Allen; title: The First Vision story revived / Richard Lyman Bushman; title: The significance of Joseph Smith's "First Vision" in Mormon thought / James B. Allen; title: Evaluating three arguments against Joseph Smith's First Vision / Steven C. Harper; title: First Vision anthology contributor biographies.