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Title

Dreamers of Zion, Joseph Smith and George J. Adams : conviction, leadership and Israel's renewal / Reed M. Holmes.

Author

Holmes, Reed M.

Publication

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2003.

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Description

xix, 234 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book explains the rejection by Smith and Adams of "normal" Christian replacement theology and sets out the apologetics by which Smith and Adams promoted courage and conviction in all who joined them in encouraging the ingathering of the Jewish exiles to Jerusalem."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
• Adams, G. J. 1813-1880
• 1800-1899
• Zion (Latter Day Saint doctrine) > History of doctrines > 19th century
• Israel (Christian theology) > History of doctrines > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-225) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Historical Background -- The Return of the Jews -- Christian attitudes towards Zion and the Jewish people -- America as "God's New Israel" -- Primacy of the Bible in Puritan America -- Sense of national destiny -- Emerging concern in Britain and America for the Return of the Jews -- 2. The Zionism of Joseph Smith -- The Smith family in their Puritan New England setting -- Joseph Smith, from birth to theophany -- Theophany in a grove -- The Book of Mormon -- The Book of Mormon and Native Americans -- Two Zions and the Restoration of Israel -- Joseph Smith, pre-millennialist with a difference -- The Concept of Zionic Community: Zion an ensign -- Enoch's City of Zion -- The Collective Idea -- Conflict and Persecution -- Philadelphia and Warder Cresson -- Orson Hyde's assignment to Jerusalem -- Nauvoo and the Murder of Joseph Smith -- Joseph Smith and the Temple -- The Influence of Joseph Smith -- 3. The Zionism of George Jones Adams -- Joseph Smith: believer in the Redemption of Zion -- G. J. Adams' background -- G. J. Adams and the Mormons -- George Adams and James Strang -- The Children of Ephraim -- Zion to be established at Jerusalem -- Joshua and Caleb go to Palestine, to "spy out the land" -- Preparations for the journey to Jaffa -- The Jaffa Colony -- The growth of dissension -- The colony and the consuls -- Break-up of the colony -- Evaluating the effect of Adam's belief in the redemption of Zion -- 4. The Mormon Movement -- Kinship with the House of Israel.

ISBN

190390062X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003012807

OCLC

• 52547529
• SCSB-11923294

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library