Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And his classic book\u00a0Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses <\/em>(Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981) remains one of the best and most important books ever published on the history of the Restoration.\u00a0 In this book, Professor Anderson subjects the Book of Mormon witnesses to meticulous examination.\u00a0 And they emerge from the process as sane, lucid, honest, reliable men \u2014 a fact of perfectly enormous importance because of the way their testimony directly corroborates central claims of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brother Anderson wrote many other indispensable articles on the Witnesses \u2014 and on other significant topics \u2014 both before and after Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses<\/em> was published. \u00a0These are available online (though perhaps no longer available at the redirected, post-2012 Maxwell Institute website), including but not limited to \u201cAttempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses,\u201d Journal of Book of Mormon Studies<\/em>\u00a014\/1 (2005): 18\u201331; \u201cPersonal Writings of the Book of Mormon Witnesses,\u201d in\u00a0Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins<\/em>, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1997), 39\u201360; and \u201cThe Credibility of the Book of the Mormon Translators,\u201d in\u00a0Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins<\/em>, ed. Noel B. Reynolds and Charles D. Tate (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1982), 213\u201337. \u00a0But\u00a0Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses<\/em> remains, I think, the best place to start on this vital subject.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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