Item Detail
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28330
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3
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0
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English
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Changing Thought on the Book of Mormon
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Improvement Era
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September 1942
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45
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9
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Salt Lake City, UT
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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568-568
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The Book of Mormon was published in the year 1830. Since that time, volumes have been written concerning it and many dis- courses have been published, the authors of which have either condemned or defended it. It would seem that almost every phase of Book of Mormon controversy should have been elaborated in the meantime, in great detail.
Since its publication, the whole trend of human events has been greatly influenced by the discoveries of science and the dominance of new philosophies. Scholars, speakers and writers—even the so called common people—are not thinking today as they did at the time the Book of Mormon was published.
The desire to ascertain the changes which have taken place in emphasis or in the presentation of new ideas as found in the published
discourses of the speakers and
writers who have dealt with the Book of Mormon impelled a study of
this problem. [From the text]