Abstract
An influential 19th-c. US religious figure, Joseph Smith was a 14-year-old boy living in New York, when, by his own account, God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
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Copyright © 2010, Cambridge University Press. This article first appeared in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (2010), 1165-1166.
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Recommended Citation
Givens, Terryl. "Smith, Joseph." The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Edited by Daniel Patte. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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