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*Daniel C. Peterson, "[http://gospelink.com/library/toc?book_id=868 Notes on 'Gadianton Masonry,']" in ''Warfare in the Book of Mormon'', edited by Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 174-224 ISBN 0875793002. | *Daniel C. Peterson, "[http://gospelink.com/library/toc?book_id=868 Notes on 'Gadianton Masonry,']" in ''Warfare in the Book of Mormon'', edited by Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 174-224 ISBN 0875793002. | ||
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Contents
Criticism
Critics claim that the Gadianton robbers are thinly disguised references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era.
Source(s) of the Criticism
- Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1945), 63-6.
- John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 168-71, 174-7, 226, 230, 233.
- Ed Decker, Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism (Eugene: Harvest House, 1995), 210-1, 280.
- Robert N. Hullinger, Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon (St. Louis, Mo.: Clayton, 1980), 100-19; republished as Joseph Smith's Response to Skepticism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 99-120.
- David Persuitte, Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985), 173-80.
- Latayne Colvett Scott, The Mormon mirage : a former Mormon tells why she left the church (Grand Rapids : Zondervan Pub. House, 1979), 75.
- Dan Vogel, "Mormonism's 'Anti-Masonick Bible,'" John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 9 (1989): 17-30.
Response
The response should be brief and summary in nature.
Conclusion
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon
FAIR web site
- FAIR Topical Guide:
External links
- Daniel C. Peterson, "'Secret Combinations' Revisited," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 1:1 (1992): 184–188.
Printed material
- Daniel C. Peterson, "Notes on 'Gadianton Masonry,'" in Warfare in the Book of Mormon, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 174-224 ISBN 0875793002.