Item Detail
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28890
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English
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"Inspiring" but Not True : An Added Glimpse of the RLDS Stance on the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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1997
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6
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2
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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218-228
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"Since the late 1960s RLDS 'liberals' have argued that the Book of Mormon should not be read as an authentic ancient history. This novel reading of the Book of Mormon has been part of a sustained effort by the RLDS hierarchy to make the Reorganization conform more closely with Protestant liberal approaches to the Bible. I demonstrate that the RLDS hierarchy has encouraged changes in the way the Book of Mormon is read by RLDS intellectuals. I then examine the arguments of Roger Launius, currently the foremost RLDS historian, who has recently insisted that the Book of Mormon ought to be read as 'inspiring' frontier fiction. I also describe and criticize his claim that any concern with the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon is not serious historical scholarship, which he wants focused on issues currently fashionable among secularized historians." [abstract provided]
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A Further Inquiry Into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon
Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity
Beyond Literalism
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
From Old to New Mormon History : Fawn Brodie and the Legacy of Scholarly Analysis of Mormonism
History and the Mormon Scriptures
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Matters of Conscience : Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion
More Revisionist Legerdemain and the Book of Mormon
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
Our Legacy of Faith : A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Problems in Interpreting the Book of Mormon as History
Reconsidering No Man Knows My History : Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect
Religion and Ultimate Concern : An Encounter with Paul Tillich's Theology
The Challenge of Historical Consciousness : Mormon History and the Encounter with Secular Modernity
The Church Through the Years Volume 1 : RLDS Beginnings, to 1860
The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon : 'Is Modernity Itself Somehow Canonical?'
The Historicity of the Book of Mormon and the Use of the Sermon on the Mount in III Nephi
The Radical Reformation of the Reorganization of the Restoration : Recent Changes in the RLDS Understanding of the Book of Mormon
The Word of God : Essays on Mormon Scripture
Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Critics and Their Theories