Mormonism LIVE: 121: Joseph Smith’s First Vision in Context: A Comparative Analysis

Joseph Smith’s First Vision ushered in the restoration of the Gospel. It had Heavenly Father and His Son coming through the Heavens to visit the young boy in the spring of 1820. This vision leads to the founding of Mormonism. But what is not as well known is that in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, everyone and their brother was having visions and many of them appear to be very similar to Joseph Smith’s. So in this week’s episode Bill and RFM do a comparative analysis on those other Visions to see what can be gleaned and its no small thing what they find. RESOURCES:https://web.archive.org/web/20180710083455/https://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/theophany-mine/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_districthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening https://archive.org/details/lifecon00smit/page/n13/mode/2uphttp://www.mormonstudiespodcast.org/joseph-smith-elias-smith-and-wilford-poulson/https://archive.org/details/TheReligiousExperienceOfNorrisStearnshttp://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech6.htmhttps://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/elders-journal-july-1838/16https://www.watchman.org/articles/mormonism/piecing-together-the-first-vision/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Visionhttps://rsc.byu.edu/exploring-first-vision/significance-joseph-smiths-first-vision-mormon-thoughthttps://www.josephsmithpapers.org/site/accounts-of-the-first-visionhttps://mit.irr.org/joseph-smiths-changing-first-vision-accountshttps://www.mormonstories.org/truth-claims/joseph-smith/first-vision/https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-prognostication-of-asa-wild/http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/SChamberlain.htmlhttps://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-visionary-world-of-joseph-smith/http://www.mormonhandbook.com/home/first-vision-plagiarized.htmlhttps://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83032054/1831-02-01/ed-1/seq-5/ https://archive.org/details/SketchOfExperiencesOfSolomonChamberlin/mode/2up?view=theater&q=apo http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/SChamberlain.html https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll15/id/40132https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/first-vision/ https://youtu.be/WB3iwEX8WhY?t=1306https://rsc.byu.edu/exploring-first-vision/earliest-documented-accounts-joseph-smiths-first-visionhttps://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2041501