Category: Joseph Smith’s Milieu

004: Dan Vogel—Annotated Edition of the First Anti-Mormon Book (1834); Restoration Origins

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A prolific interpreter of Mormonism, Dan Vogel is an engaging guest and a decades’ long friend. In this interview we discuss his most recent publication, an annotated edition of Eber Dudley Howe’s 1834 Mormonism Unvailed: Or, a Faithful Account of That…

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Joseph Smith, Elias Smith, and Wilford Poulson

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Joseph Smith’s divine encounter known as the First Vision occurred within a cultural matrix where others also reported having seen deity in redemptive visions. For instance, Billy Hibbard, a native of Norwich, CT, who became a Methodist preacher, recalled: I…

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