Item Detail
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Hardy, Grant
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Book, Section
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32
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32-36
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Columbus
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Recent research has overturned the idea that Columbus was led by science, reason, restlessness, and conquest to discover America. Columbus was deeply influenced by prophecy and revelation. The Book of Mormon's claim that Columbus was inspired by the Spirit of God was in opposition to the intellectual trend of 1830. Columbus wrote, but never completed, a book that set forth his views of himself as a fulfiller of biblical prophecies recorded in Isaiah.