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Dreamers of Zion - Joseph Smith and George J Adams -- Conviction, Leadership and Israel's Renewal (Paperback)
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Dreamers of Zion - Joseph Smith and George J Adams -- Conviction, Leadership and Israel's Renewal (Paperback)
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Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Mormon movement, and George J
Adams, one of his least known followers -- two Gentile dreamers of
Zion -- were instrumental in encouraging Jews and Christians to
support the restoration of Israel. For Joseph Smith, Jewish
responsibility for establishing Zion had not been forfeited or
terminated. It was continuous: the Jews would return as Jews; they
would rebuild Jerusalem as Jews. In his view, neither the
denigration of Jews, so often characteristic of Christianity, nor
supersession by the Church, was tenable. According to Joseph's
perception of the Scriptures, and his own prophetic insights, there
are to be two strategic centres -- Zion at historical Jerusalem,
and Zion in a New Jerusalem in the heartland of America. He
believed that a renewed Israel and a church, restored to its primal
purpose, shared a mandate to body forth in society the dream of the
Kingdom of God. He called this dream the cause of Zion, which
became a major emphasis of the Mormon movement. Adams, separated
from the Mormons following the assassination of Joseph Smith in
1844, founded his own Church of the Messiah. Most of his
congregations were in Maine, where he readied his followers for a
mission as the "Children of Ephraim", which he explicated with
persuasive skill from the Old Testament. Later he led 156 of his
followers to found an agricultural and commercial colony in Jaffa,
Israel. 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 in-gathering
of the Jewish exiles to Jerusalem.
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