Item Detail
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English
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Et Incarnatus Est : The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity
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Interpreter : A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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30
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Provo, UT
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The Interpreter Foundation
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105-124
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Some have come to insist that the Book of Mormon should be read as inspired fiction, which is to say that readers, including Latter-day Saints, should abandon any belief in the Book of Mormon as an authentic ancient text and instead should see it as an inspired frontier novel written by Joseph Smith that may act as scripture for those who follow his teachings. This paper provides reasoning to reject this proposition as not only logically incoherent but also theologically impotent.1 It raises the objection that this position fundamentally undercuts the credibility of Joseph Smith. The Prophet’s direct claims concerning the coming forth of the Book of Mormon as well as how the Book of Mormon presents itself to the world do not easily permit any leeway for a “middle ground” on this matter.
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American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
A Pathway to Prophethood : Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Attempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Charles Anthon - The Man Behind the Letters
Conceptual Confusion and the Building of Stumbling Blocks of Faith
Defense of the Faith and the Saints
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
Early Mormon Documents : Volume II
Early Mormon Documents : Volume IV
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Eleven Witnesses Behold the Plates
Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
From Darkness unto Light : Joseph Smith's Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
"Inspiring" but Not True : An Added Glimpse of the RLDS Stance on the Book of Mormon
Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Joseph Smith and Money Digging
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon
Mormon's Codex : An Ancient American Book
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
No Middle Ground : The Debate over the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
Prophecy and Palimpsest
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Seeking Divine Interaction : Joseph Smith's Varying Searches for the Supernatural
Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon "Folk Magic" in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Book of Mormon : A Biography
The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing
The Book of Mormon : A Very Short Introduction
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon : A Marvelous Work and a Wonder : The 44th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon : 'Is Modernity Itself Somehow Canonical?'
The Gift and Power : Translating the Book of Mormon
The Reluctant Metaphysicians
The Word of God is Enough : The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture
Traditions of the Fathers : The Book of Mormon as History
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide