http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865631371\/From-Darkness-unto-Light-takes-a-fresh-look-at-recovery-publication-of-the-Book-of-Mormon.html?pg=all<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I commend it to your attention.<\/p>\n
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It will solidify and correct Latter-day Saint understandings, and, in my opinion, it offers substantial new challenges to critics of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. \u00a0(If past experience is any guide, of course, they won\u2019t seriously engage those challenges.)<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee endorses Michael MacKay and Gerrit Dirkmaat\u2019s 2015 book\u00a0From Darkness unto Light: \u00a0 http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/read-this-not-that.html \u00a0 I myself published an endorsement of the book back in June: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865631371\/From-Darkness-unto-Light-takes-a-fresh-look-at-recovery-publication-of-the-Book-of-Mormon.html?pg=all \u00a0 I commend it to your attention. \u00a0 It will solidify and correct Latter-day Saint understandings, and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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