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Criticism of Mormonism/Books
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Contents
- 1 Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
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- 1.2 Critical books beginning with the letter 'A'
- 1.2.1 Response to claims made in American Massacre by Sally Denton
- 1.2.2 Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
- 1.2.3 Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.2.4 Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.2.5 Response to claims made in Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.3 Critical books beginning with the letter 'B'
- 1.3.1 Response to claims made in Becoming Gods by Richard Abanes
- 1.3.2 Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
- 1.3.3 Response to claims made in By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles Larson
- 1.4 Critical books beginning with the letter 'C'
- 1.5 Critical books beginning with the letter 'D'
- 1.6 Critical books beginning with the letter 'E'
- 1.7 Critical books beginning with the letter 'I'
- 1.8 Critical books beginning with the letter 'L'
- 1.9 Critical books beginning with the letter 'M'
- 1.10 Response to claims made in "Mormonism 101" by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
- 1.11 Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- 1.12 Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked by R. Philip Roberts
- 1.13 Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
- 1.14 Response to Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, a work by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
- 1.15 Critical books beginning with the letter 'N'
- 1.16 Critical books beginning with the letter 'O'
- 1.17 Critical books beginning with the letter 'P'
- 1.18 Critical books beginning with the letter 'S'
- 1.19 Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.20 Studies of the Book of Mormon by B.H. Roberts
- 1.21 Critical books beginning with the letter 'T'
- 1.21.1 Response to claims made in The Book of Lehi by Christopher Nemelka
- 1.21.2 Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Norman L. Geisler
- 1.21.3 Response to claims made in The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition by Robert Ritner
- 1.21.4 Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)
- 1.21.5 Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshson
- 1.21.6 Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.21.7 Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- 1.22 Critical books beginning with the letter 'U'
- 1.23 Critical books beginning with the letter 'V'
- 1.24 Critical books beginning with the letter 'W'
Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
Critical books beginning with the letter 'A'
Response to claims made in American Massacre by Sally Denton
Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
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
Critical books beginning with the letter '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
Critical books beginning with the letter 'C'
Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
Critical books beginning with the letter '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?
Critical books beginning with the letter 'E'
Response to claims made in Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
Critical books beginning with the letter 'I'
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
Inside Today's Mormonism by Richard Abanes
Summary: This book is a 2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods.Critical books beginning with the letter '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
Critical books beginning with the letter 'M'
Response to claims made in "Mormonism 101" by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
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- Introduction to Mormonism 101: Back to School by David Waltz
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 1: God the Father"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 2: Jesus"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 3: The Trinity"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 4: Preexistence and the Second Estate"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 5: The Fall"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 6: Apostasy"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 7: The Bible"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 8: The Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 9: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 10: The Atonement"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 11: Grace and Works"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 12: Heaven and Hell"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 13: Communion and Baptism"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 14: The Word of Wisdom"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 15: The Temple"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 16: Lamanites, Seed of Cain, and Polygamy"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 17: Joseph Smith"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism 101, "Chapter 18: The Church and Its Leadership"
- Response to Mormonism 101, Quote mining
- About this work
Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked by R. Philip Roberts
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- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 1: Mormons on Your Doorstep"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 2: The Marketing of an Image"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 3: The Making of a Religion"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 5: Confronting the Mormon Jesus"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 6: This is Good News?"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 7: Revealing Revelations"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 8: Jesus Is Coming Again"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 9: By Whose Authority?"
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked, "Chapter 10: Meeting the Mormon Challenge"
- Louis Midgley, "Orders of Submission: Review of essays on Mormonism. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9/2 (Summer 2005): 1–81."
Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
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Response to Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, a work by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
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- Response to claims made in Mormon America: "Introduction: A New World Faith"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 1: Sealed with Blood"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 2: Beginnings: A Very American Gospel"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 3: The American Exodus"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 4: Polygamy Then and Now"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 5: Redefining the Kingdom of God"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 6: Almost Mainstream"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 7: Mormons, Inc."
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 8: Some Latter-day Stars"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 9: The Power Pyramid"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 10: Families Forever"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 11: A Peculiar People"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 12: Rituals Sacred and Secret"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 13: Two by Two"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 14: Saintly Indoctrination"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 15: Faithful History"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 16: The Gold Bible"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 17: Discovering 'Plain and Precious Things'"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 18: 'How God Came to Be God'"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 19: Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 20: Rivals and Antagonists"
- Response to claims made in Mormon American "Chapter 21: Dissenters and Exiles"
- Response to claims made in Mormon America "Chapter 22: Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century"
- Quote mining, misrepresentation and manipulation in Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
Critical books beginning with the letter 'N'
Response to claims made in Nauvoo Polygamy by George D. Smith
Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie
Critical books beginning with the letter 'O'
Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
Critical books beginning with the letter 'P'
Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver Snuffer
Critical books beginning with the letter 'S'
Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
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- Index of claims
- Klaus J. Hansen, "Quinnspeak"
- George L. Mitton and Rhett S. James, "A Response to D. Michael Quinn's Homosexual Distortion of Latter-day Saint History"
Studies of the Book of Mormon by B.H. Roberts
Summary: The content of this book is not written by a critic, but its purpose and audience are often misrepresented by critics in an effort to make it appear that Roberts lost his testimony of the Book of Mormon.
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- Response to hypotheses made in "Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study"
- Response to hypotheses made in "A Book of Mormon Study"
- Response to hypotheses made in "A Parallel"
- About this work
Critical books beginning with the letter 'T'
Response to claims made in The Book of Lehi by Christopher Nemelka
Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Norman L. Geisler
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
Critical books beginning with the letter '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.Critical books beginning with the letter 'V'
Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius
Critical books beginning with the letter 'W'
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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