{"product_id":"9781560852681","title":"William Bickerton: Forgotten Latter Day Prophet","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Bickerton is the founding prophet of the\u003cbr\u003e third-largest Latter Day Saint denomination, known\u003cbr\u003e as the Church of Jesus Christ. Remarkably, his life\u003cbr\u003e has largely remained in the shadows.\u003cbr\u003e Bickerton immigrated to America in 1831 at\u003cbr\u003e the height of the Second Great Awakening. In\u003cbr\u003e 1845 Sidney Rigdon, a former counselor to founding\u003cbr\u003e prophet Joseph Smith, accepted him into the\u003cbr\u003e Church of Christ. Rigdon soon bankrupted his\u003cbr\u003e church and abandoned his followers. Unsure where\u003cbr\u003e to turn, Bickerton joined with Brigham Young until\u003cbr\u003e a moral objection to polygamy left him once again\u003cbr\u003e in search of a religious community. Divine inspiration\u003cbr\u003e led Bickerton to form his own church based on\u003cbr\u003e the original teachings of Joseph Smith.\u003cbr\u003e A visionary man, Bickerton expanded his church\u003cbr\u003e along the western frontier, even among the Native\u003cbr\u003e Americans, and kept his congregation afloat through\u003cbr\u003e financial trials. Yet when an allegation of marital\u003cbr\u003e infidelity against Bickerton split his church in two,\u003cbr\u003e he was disfellowshipped and his legacy obscured.\u003cbr\u003e Biographer Daniel P. Stone carefully reconstructs\u003cbr\u003e the forgotten details of this American mystic, fulfilling\u003cbr\u003e Bickerton’s final wish, as taken from the Book of\u003cbr\u003e Job: “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that\u003cbr\u003e they were printed in a book! That they were graven\u003cbr\u003e with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063941939440,"sku":"9781560852681","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781560852681_p0.jpg?v=1763767348","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781560852681","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}