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JOSEPH SMITH, SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER, THEORIST, AND PROPHET
by
HYRUM LESLIE ANDRUS
B. S., Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho, 1951
M. S. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1952
THESIS
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Social Science in the Graduate School of Syracuse University August, 1955
Approved by: M. J. Fisher
Date: Aug 4, 1955
Copyrighted by Hyrum Leslie Andrus 1955
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS AN ERA OF SOCIAL REFORM
III. RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
IV. EARLY LIFE AND ANCESTRY OF JOSEPH SMITH
V. EARLY INCIDENTS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
VI. THE SPREAD OF THE SOCIETY OF ZION
VII. BACKGROUND ASSUMPTIONS IN JOSEPH SMITH'S THOUGHT AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH 'THE NEW SOCIETY
VIII. SOCIETY BY COVENANT
IX. THEOCRACY AND POWER
X. ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ZION
XI. SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ZION
XII. ASPIRATIONS TO REVOLUTIONIZE WORLD SOCIETY
XIII. CONFLICT AND PERSECUTION
XIV. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
XV. THE RISE OF A NEW PEOPLE TO POWER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR CENTRAL CITIES OF GOVERNMENT
XVI. CONCLUSION
XVII. BIBLIOGRAPHY