Dan Vogel's video on Joseph Smith's Family Dynamics

[_Dan Vogel]

This video explains how the dynamics of Joseph Smith’s family was a significant motivating factor for launching his prophetic career and that he founded Mormonism, in part, to resolve family conflict over religion and the eternal fate of his un-baptized older brother, Alvin.


This is a version of Dan Vogel’s paper "Joseph Smith's Family Dynamics" delivered at John Whitmer Historical Association Annual Conference in Kirtland, Ohio, 27 September 1997, and Sunstone Theological Symposium in Salt Lake City, 30 July 1998, and subsequently published in John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 22 (2002): 51-74. It was also incorporated in Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2004).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaXgVZVBn3k&feature=g-upl