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Freemasonry and the Book of Mormon
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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), 63–66.
- John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 168–171, 174–177, 226, 230, 233.
- Ed Decker, Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism (Eugene: Harvest House, 1995), 210–211, 280.
- Robert N. Hullinger, Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon (St. Louis, Mo.: Clayton, 1980), 100–119; republished as Joseph Smith's Response to Skepticism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 99–120.
- Thomas F. O'Dea, The Mormons (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), 23, 35, 57.
- David Persuitte, Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985), 173–180.
- Walter F. Prince, "Psychological Tests for the Authorship of the Book of Mormon," American Journal of Psychology 28 (July 1917): 373–389.
- 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.
- Dan Vogel, "Echoes of Anti-Masonry: A Rejoinder to the Critics of the Anti-Masonic Thesis," in American Apocrypha, ed. Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalfe (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002), 275–320.
Response
The response should be brief and summary in nature.
Conclusion
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
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FAIR web site
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External links
- Matthew B. Brown, "Girded about with a Lambskin," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2/2 (1997): 124–151.*
- Nathan Oman, "Secret Combinations: A Legal Analysis," FARMS Review of Books 16/1 (2004): 49–73.*
- Paul Mouritsen, "Secret Combinations and Flaxen Cords: Anti-Masonic Rhetoric and the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12/1 (2003): 64–77.*
- 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.GospeLink