Biography:Outline of Joseph Smith

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Joseph Smith

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.

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

Life of Joseph Smith from 1838 to 1839
- 1838 Mormon War
- Anti-Mormonism
- Sampson Avard
- Danites
- Salt Sermon
- Rigdon's July 4th oration
- Thomas B. Marsh
- Orson Hyde
- Battle of Crooked River
- Lilburn Boggs
- Missouri Executive Order 44
- Haun's Mill massacre
- Liberty Jail
- Brigham Young

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

Death of Joseph Smith
- William Law
- Nauvoo House
- True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Nauvoo Expositor
- King Follett discourse
- Thomas C. Sharp
- Warsaw Signal
- Hyrum Smith
- John Taylor
- Willard Richards
- John P. Greene
- Dan Jones
- John S. Fullmer
- Carthage Jail
- Smith Family Cemetery

Legacy

People

Mormons
ex-Mormons

Memorials

Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Joseph Smith Building
Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial

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
- Brigham Young
- Utah Territory
Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
- Rigdonite
- Sidney Rigdon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
- Letter of Appointment
- James J. Strang
Community of Christ
- Joseph Smith III

Teachings

Teachings of Joseph Smith

Salvation

Plan of Salvation

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

Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy
Mormonism and polygamy
Louisa Beaman

Prophecies

List of prophecies of Joseph Smith

Revealed Scriptures

Proposed map of the lands and sites of the Book of Mormon

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

Lectures on Faith
King Follett discourse

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

Community of Christ
- Joseph Smith III
- Frederick M. Smith
- Israel A. Smith
- W. Wallace Smith
- Wallace B. Smith
Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Frederick Niels Larsen

Family chart

Family and descendants

List of the wives of Joseph Smith
Children of Joseph Smith
Presiding Patriarch

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

External links

Works by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Joseph Smith at 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

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