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26632
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English
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Making a Case for a Nineteenth-Century Reading of the Book of Mormon in the Community of Christ
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Restoration Studies
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11
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John Whitmer Historical Association; Community of Christ Seminary Press
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111-126
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It is my contention that a responsible and usable approach to interpreting and understanding the Book of Mormon requires that the reader be brought into a historical conversation with the early nineteenth century, a larger hermeneutical conversation with the text itself, and an interpretive strategy that may enable a more-adequate understanding of a reading of the Book of Mormon, which would include the perceived aims and purposes of Joseph Smith Jr. himself. Such an approach is necessary if one is to adequately understand the word and witness of the Book of Mormon in the twenty-first century. [From the article]