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Outline of Joseph Smith

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Outline of Joseph Smith

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and influence of Joseph Smith:

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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. Joseph Smith is also called the Prophet of the Restoration.

Essence of Joseph Smith

  • Religion
  • Theism – belief that one or more gods exist
  • Monotheism – belief that only one God exists
  • Abrahamic Religions – religions claiming Abraham as a direct forebear or prophet
  • Christianity – monotheistic religion claiming Jesus as its founder
  • Mormonism – the teachings of Jesus needed to be restored because all existing churches fell into a Great Apostasy.
  • Joseph Smith is the Prophet who restored all lost teachings of Jesus through Revelations.

    • 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 1834 and Life of Joseph Smith from 1834 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

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    • Family and descendants

  • List of the wives of Joseph Smith
  • Children of Joseph Smith

    • 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

    • References

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