Item Detail
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29792
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English
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Sign or Scripture : Approaches to the Book of Mormon
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19
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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69-75
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"Why does discussion of the Book of Mormon typically tend to focus on
questions of its historicity and authorship, on Mesoamerican archeology, chiasmus, and wordprints? These subjects are certainly valid and worth
pursuing, but I find a more personally relevant question to be: How does the
Book of Mormon present the basic doctrines of the gospel? What role should
the Book of Mormon play in our religious and intellectual lives? Is it a sign of
the divine origin of the Restoration movement or is it scripture? Do we use it
as a weapon to convince doubters of the truth of our position or as a source for
our own reflection on the meaning and truthfulness of our religious teaching?
When I talk about using the Book of Mormon as a sign, I refer to the
tendency to use it to demonstrate the divine origin of the Latter Day Saint/
Latter-day Saint movement or to demonstrate that Joseph Smith, Jr., was a
prophet.1
It is not necessarily inappropriate to use the Book of Mormon in this
way, provided the claims can be substantiated. Nevertheless, using the Book of
Mormon as a sign is different from using it as scripture" [Author] -
A Hermeneutic of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, and the Bible and Book of Mormon
"Common Sense" Meets the Book of Mormon : Source, Substance and Prophetic Disruption
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
The Hidden Records of Central Utah and the Struggle for Religious Authority
The Word of God is Enough : The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture