Item Detail
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5442
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English
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The Radical Reformation of the Reorganization of the Restoration : Recent Changes in the RLDS Understanding of the Book of Mormon
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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Fall 1993
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2
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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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132-63
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Beginning in the 1960s, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS [now Community of Christ]) has modified its understanding of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s prophetic charisms. Where the RLDS were earlier permitted to read the Book of Mormon as nineteenth-century fiction, they are now encouraged by their leaders to do so, though they are still permitted to find in it, if they wish, some inspiring passages. These changes have been resisted by a conservative minority that has lost the battle for control of the Reorganization and now tends to worship outside RLDS congregations. A few Latter-day Saints have also begun to read the Book of Mormon as fiction. Their efforts to turn the Book of Mormon into nineteenth-century fiction have been opposed by competent Latter-day Saint scholarship, though not without resistance from those who control independent and
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Mormon Memory, Mormon Myth, and Mormon History
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
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A Further Inquiry Into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon
An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
An Analysis of Six Contemporary Accounts Touching Joseph Smith's First Vision
A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
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Dialogue toward Forgiveness
Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
Historiography and the New Mormon History : A Historian's Perspective
Joseph Smith's First Vision : The RLDS Tradition
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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
Palmyra Revisited : A Look at Early Nineteenth-Century America and the Book of Mormon
Professionalizing Religious Education in the Church : The 'New Curriculum' Controversy
Protective and Learning Images in Latter Day Saint Revelation
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Church Through the Years, Vol II : The Reorganization Comes of Age, 1860-1992
The Church Through the Years Volume 1 : RLDS Beginnings, to 1860
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership : A Contemporary Chronology
The Method of Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Secular Smiths
The Word of God : Essays on Mormon Scripture
Trouble Enough : Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
Utah : Inside the Church State
Victims : The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
Women and Priesthood
Zion as a Doctrine of Providence