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Contents
- 1 Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
- 1.1 Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
- 1.2 Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton
- 1.3 Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
- 1.3.1 Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.3.2 Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.3.3 Response to claims made in Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.3.4 B
- 1.3.5 Response to claims made in Becoming Gods by Richard Abanes
- 1.3.6 Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
- 1.3.7 Response to claims made in By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles Larson
- 1.3.8 C
- 1.3.9 Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
- 1.3.10 D
- 1.3.11 Response to claims made in Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
- 1.3.12 Response to claims made in Deconstructing Mormonism by Thomas Riskas
- 1.3.13 Response to claims made in Do Christians Believe in Three Gods?
- 1.3.14 E
- 1.4 Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.4.1 I
- 1.4.2 Response to claims made in In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
- 1.4.3 Response to claims made in Inside Today's Mormonism by Richard Abanes
- 1.4.4 L
- 1.4.5 Response to claims made in Letters to a Mormon Elder by James White
- 1.4.6 Response to claims made in Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon Southerton
- 1.4.7 M
- 1.4.8 Response to claims made in Mormonism 101
- 1.4.9 Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality
- 1.4.10 Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked
- 1.5 Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
- 1.6 Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
- 1.7 Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
- 1.7.1 P
- 1.7.2 Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver Snuffer
- 1.7.3 S
- 1.7.4 Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.7.5 Response to claims made in Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts
- 1.7.6 T
- 1.7.7 Response to claims made in The Book of Lehi by Christopher Nemelka
- 1.8 Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.9 Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Normal L. Geisler
- 1.9.1 Response to claims made in The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition by Robert Ritner
- 1.9.2 Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)
- 1.9.3 Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshson
- 1.9.4 Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.9.5 Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.9.6 U
- 1.9.7 Response to claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- 1.9.8
- 1.9.9 "Understanding Mormon Disbelief: Why do some Mormons lose their testimony and what happens to them when they do?" by Open Stories Foundation
- 1.9.10 V
- 1.9.11 Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius
- 1.9.12 W
- 1.10 Response to claims made in Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma by Wayne Cowdery, Howard Davis, and Donald Scales
Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
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- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma by Wayne Cowdery, Howard Davis, and Donald Scales
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Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton
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- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 1: Palmyra, 1823"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 2: Kirtland/Far West, 1831"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 3: Nauvoo, 1840"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter Four: Winter Quarters—Council Bluffs, 1846"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 5: Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 6: Sevier River, October 26, 1853"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 7: Harrison, March 29, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 8: Deseret, August 3, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 9"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 10: Mountain Meadows, September 7-11, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 11: Deseret, September 12, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 12: Camp Scott, November 16, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 13: Cedar City, April 7, 1859"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 14: Mountain Meadows, May 25, 1861"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 15: Mountain Meadows, March 23, 1877"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 16: Mountain Meadows Aftermath"
Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
Summary: In Insider's View of Mormon Origins was developed during a period of time that its author worked as a teacher in the Church Educational System (CES), and was published after the author's retirement from Church employment. The book attempts to explain many otherwise clearly described events of the restoration by reinterpreting them as spiritual rather than physical events.
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- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 1: Joseph Smith as Translator/Revelator"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 2: Authorship of the Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 3: The Bible in the Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 4: Evangelical Protestantism in the Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 5: Moroni and 'The Golden Pot'"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 6: Witnesses to the Golden Plates"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 7: Priesthood Restoration"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 8: The First Vision"
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Conclusion"
Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Response to claims made in Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
B
Response to claims made in Becoming Gods by Richard Abanes
Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
Response to claims made in By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles Larson
C
Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
D
Response to claims made in Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
Response to claims made in Deconstructing Mormonism by Thomas Riskas
Response to claims made in Do Christians Believe in Three Gods?
E
Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
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- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 2: Divining Rods, Treasure-Digging, and Seer Stones"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 3: Ritual Magic, Astrology, Amulets, and Talismans"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 4: Magic Parchments and Occult Mentors"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 5: Visions and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 6: Mormon Scriptures, the Magic World View, and Rural New York's Intellectual Life"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 7: The Persistence and Decline of Magic After 1830"
I
Response to claims made in In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
Response to claims made in Inside Today's Mormonism by Richard Abanes
L
Response to claims made in Letters to a Mormon Elder by James White
Response to claims made in Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon Southerton
M
Response to claims made in Mormonism 101
Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality
Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked
Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
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Response to claims made in Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
N
Response to claims made in Nauvoo Polygamy by George D. Smith
Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
Summary: Louis Midgley: "Though Fawn McKay Brodie forged a reputation as a controversial psychohistorian, it is her 1945 biography of Joseph Smith for which she has always been known among Latter-day Saints. She thought of herself, and has been portrayed by cultural Mormons, as an "objective" historian who had taken the measure of "the Mormon prophet." Her death on 10 January 1981 was followed by tributes in which she was depicted as a heroic figure who had courageously liberated herself from bondage to the mind-numbing religious orthodoxy of her parochial childhood and who had thereby set in place among Latter-day Saints what one of her admirers called "a new climate of liberation." Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life—the latest and most comprehensive of these tributes to Brodie—constitutes a substantial addition to the tiny academic specialty that might be called 'Brodie studies'."[1]
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- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 2: Treasure in the Earth"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 5: Witnesses for God"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 6: The Prophet of Palmyra"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 7: The Perfect Society and the Promised Land"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 8: Temple Builder"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 9: Expulsion from Eden"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 12: Master of Languages"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 13: My Kingdom is of this World"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 15: The Valley of God"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 16: The Alcoran or the Sword"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 17: Ordeal in Liberty Jail"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 18: Nauvoo"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 19: Mysteries of the Kingdom"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 20: In the Quiver of the Almighty"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 21: If a Man Entice a Maid"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 22: The Bennett Explosion"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 23: Into Hiding"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 25: Candidate for President"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 27: Carthage"
- Hugh W. Nibley, "No, Ma'am, That's Not History"
- Louis Midgley, "F. M. Brodie--"The Fasting Hermit and Very Saint of Ignorance": A Biographer and Her Legend"
- Louis Midgley, "Comments on Critical Exchanges"
- Gary F. Novak, ""The Most Convenient Form of Error": Dale Morgan on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon"
- BYU Studies, "Exploding the Myth About Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet"
- BYU Studies, "The Brodie Connection: Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Smith"
O
Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
Summary: In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years. FairMormon's original review of One Nation Under Gods was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FairMormon reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.) This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."
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- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 5: People of Zion"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 6: No Rest for the Righteous"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 10: A New Beginning"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 15: Making the Transition"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Postscript" (paperback only)
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix C: Recommended Resources"
P
Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver Snuffer
S
Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
Response to claims made in Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts
T
Response to claims made in The Book of Lehi by Christopher Nemelka
Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 1: A Marvelous Work?"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 2: Change, Censorship and Suppression"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 3: Changes in Revelations"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 4: Joseph Smith and Money-Digging"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 5: The Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 6: The First Vision"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 7: The Godhead"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 8: The Adam-God Doctrine"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 9: Plural Marriage"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 10: Changing the Anti-Black Doctrine"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 11: Fall of the Book of Abraham"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 12: Mormon Scriptures and the Bible"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 13: Changes in Joseph Smith's History"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 14: False Prophecy"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 15: The Arm of Flesh"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 16: The Priesthood"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 17: Joseph Smith"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 18: Word of Wisdom"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 19: Old Testament Practices"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 20: Blood Atonement"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 21: The Hereafter"
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism, "Chapter 22: Temple Work"
Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Normal L. Geisler
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- Alma Allred, "Coin of the Realm: Beware of Specious Specie"
- Danel W. Bachman, "The Other Side of the Coin: A Source Review of Norman Geisler's Chapter"
- Barry R. Bickmore, "Not Completely Worthless"
- Richard R. Hopkins, "Counterfeiting the Mormon Concept of God"
- Russell C. McGregor, "Widening the Divide: The Countercult Version of Mormonism"
Response to claims made in The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition by Robert Ritner
Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)
Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshson
Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
U
Response to claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
"Understanding Mormon Disbelief: Why do some Mormons lose their testimony and what happens to them when they do?" by Open Stories Foundation
Summary: Responses to a "study" which claims to illuminate the reasons for Mormon disaffection.V
Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius
W
Response to claims made in Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma by Wayne Cowdery, Howard Davis, and Donald Scales
Summary: This book attempted to revive the moribund Spalding manuscript theory for the Book of Mormon. Cowdery et al. claimed to have discovered Spalding's handwriting in the Book of Mormon original manuscript. In addition to the insurmountable historical problems with the Spalding theory, the supposed "Spalding" handwriting has likewise been found in documents produced in June 1831--fifteen years after Spalding's death.
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Notes
- ↑ Louis Midgley, "The Legend and Legacy of Fawn Brodie," FARMS Review of Books 13:1 (2001).