Outline of Joseph Smith
Overview of and topical guide to Joseph Smith
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and influence of Joseph Smith:
Joseph Smith – central figure of Mormonism, whom the teachings of most List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement hold to be the founding Prophet. Smith is also called the Prophet of the Restoration.
Essence of Joseph Smith
- Religion
- Monotheism – belief that only one God exists
- Abrahamic Religions – religions Abraham is a direct prophet
- Christianity – monotheistic religion Jesus is the founder
- latter day saints – the teachings of Jesus needed to be restored because all existing churches fell into a Great Apostasy.
- Joseph Smith is the Prophet who restored many lost teachings of Jesus through Revelations.
- latter day saints – the teachings of Jesus needed to be restored because all existing churches fell into a Great Apostasy.
- Christianity – monotheistic religion Jesus is the founder
- Abrahamic Religions – religions Abraham is a direct prophet
- Monotheism – belief that only one God exists
Life of Joseph Smith
Early life
- Early life of Joseph Smith
- Place of birth Sharon, Vermont
- Parents: Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith, Sr.
- Palmyra
- Smith Family Farm
- Second Great Awakening
- Burned-over district
- Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
- First Vision
- Angel Moroni
- Golden Plates
- Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)
- Hill Cumorah
- Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith)
- Seer stones (Latter Day Saints)
- Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system
- Emma Smith - first wife
- reformed Egyptian
1827 to 1830
- Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830
- Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)
- Anthon transcript
- Charles Anthon
- Lost 116 pages
- Oliver Cowdery
- Book of Mosiah
- Fayette, New York
- Peter Whitmer
- David Whitmer
- Three Witnesses
- Eight Witnesses
- Book of Mormon
- Church of Christ
- Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)
- Melchizedek priesthood
- Hiram Page
- New Jerusalem
- Sidney Rigdon
- Stake (Latter Day Saints)
1831 to 1837
- Life of Joseph Smith from 1831 to 1837
- United Order
- Elder (Latter Day Saints)
- General conference (Latter Day Saints)
- Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
- Zion (Latter Day Saints)
- Zion's Camp
- First Presidency
- Apostle (Latter Day Saints)
- Seventy (Latter Day Saints)
- Presiding high council
- Kirtland Temple
- Fanny Alger
- Kirtland Safety Society
1838 to 1839
1839 to 1844
- Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844
- Nauvoo Legion
- John C. Bennett
- Nauvoo, Illinois
- Assistant President of the Church
- plural marriage
- baptism for the dead
- Nauvoo Temple
- Endowment (Mormonism)
- Relief Society
- Porter Rockwell
- Thomas Ford
- Anointed Quorum
Death
Legacy
People
Memorials
Churches
- Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)
- List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement
- patrilineal succession
- Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints)
- William Smith (Latter Day Saints)
- Joseph Smith III
- David Hyrum Smith
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
- Letter of Appointment
- James J. Strang
- Community of Christ
Teachings
Salvation
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- Mormon cosmology
- Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
- Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)
- degree of glory
Temple
- Freemasonry and the Latter Day Saint movement
- Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
- Endowment (Mormonism)
- sealing
- Celestial marriage
- Exaltation (Mormonism)
Church organization
- Church of Christ
- Restoration (Latter Day Saints)
- Great Apostasy
- Council of Fifty
- Article of Faith
Priesthood
- Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
- Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
- Aaronic priesthood (LDS Church)
- Patriarchal priesthood
Polygamy
Prophecies
Revealed Scriptures
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- Book of Mormon
- Doctrine and Covenants
- Pearl of Great Price
- Book of Moses
- Book of Abraham
- Joseph Smith–Matthew
- Joseph Smith–History
- Articles of Faith
- Inspired Version of the Bible
Other texts
Parents and siblings
- Smith family (Latter Day Saints)
- Joseph Smith, Sr.
- Lucy Mack Smith
- Alvin Smith
- Hyrum Smith
- Samuel H. Smith
- William Smith
- Katharine Smith Salisbury
- Don Carlos Smith
- List of descendants of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith
Related Church Presidents
Family chart
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Family and descendants
Latter Day Saints in popular culture
- Main article
- Latter Day Saints in popular culture
- Depictions
- The 19th Wife
- A Victim of the Mormons
- Advise and Consent
- All About Mormons
- America (short story)
- Angels in America (miniseries)
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Bad Bascomb (film)
- Bash: Latter-Day Plays
- Be Happy Be Mormon
- Ben Banks (film)
- The Big Gundown
- Big Love
- The Book of Mormon (musical)
- The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
- Burying the Past
- Cannibal! The Musical
- The Cremaster Cycle
- Darger family
- Doom novels
- The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
- Escape (Jessop and Palmer book)
- The Folk of the Fringe
- The Fringe (short story)
- Georgia Rule
- The Girl from Utah
- The Great Brain
- Latter Days
- Lost Boys (novel)
- Married to a Mormon
- Messenger of Death
- Millions (2004 film)
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter
- The Mormons (miniseries)
- Mountain Meadows massacre and the media
- New York Doll
- Orgazmo
- The Other Side of Heaven
- Pageant Wagon (short story)
- Paint Your Wagon (film)
- Paint Your Wagon (musical)
- The Parafaith War
- Polygamy, USA
- Probably (South Park)
- The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Roughing It
- Salvage (short story)
- Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon
- September Dawn
- Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
- Settling Accounts: The Grapple
- Sister Wives
- Stolen Innocence
- The Strangers (2008 film)
- A Study in Scarlet
- They Call Me Trinity
- Trapped by the Mormons
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- Wagon Master
- West (short story)
- Documentaries
- Get the Fire
- Meet the Mormons
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre (film)
- Presidents and Prophets
Important places
- Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial
- Palmyra (town), New York
- Smith Family Farm
- Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
- Cumorah
- Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site
- Peter Whitmer log home
- Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site
- John Johnson Farm
- Zion (Latter Day Saints)
- Kirtland, Ohio
- Historic Kirtland Village
- Kirtland Temple
- Zion's Camp
- Jackson County, Missouri
- Independence, Missouri
- Far West, Missouri
- Adam-ondi-Ahman
- 1838 Mormon War
- Liberty Jail
- Nauvoo, Illinois
- History of Nauvoo, Illinois
- Nauvoo Historic District
- Joseph Smith Mansion House
- Nauvoo House
- Red Brick Store
- Nauvoo Temple
- Carthage Jail
- Smith Family Cemetery
Works about him
- Works relating to Joseph Smith
- History of the Church (Joseph Smith)
- History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
- Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (book)
- No Man Knows My History
- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- The Joseph Smith Papers
See also
- Index of articles related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Outline of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Outline of the Book of Mormon
External links
Joseph Smith at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Works by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Joseph Smith at the Internet Archive
- Works by Joseph Smith at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Official LDS page about Joseph Smith
- JosephSmithPapers.org—An LDS Church project compiling primary documents relating to Joseph Smith