B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon

Title

B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

1979

Authors

Journal

BYU Studies Quarterly

Pagination

427-444

Volume

19

Issue

4

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Abstract

Among readers who came to the Book of Mormon with hard, skeptical assumptions, B. H. Roberts is notable. He was capacitated by temperament and equipped by study for penetrating analysis. Moreover, at many junctures of his life he had profound personal reasons and emotional and spiritual stresses which might have led a man of lesser integrity to discard wholesale his religious heritage. But on his other side was his capacity for constant, patient study. This he brought(for more than a half century) to the Book of Mormon as he did to his work in history, never letting go, never fully satisfied with what he had written or said, and never unwilling to consider afresh the latest spate of difficulties.

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Translation
Ancient America
Roberts, B.H.
Conversion
Historicity
Missionary Work
Doctrine
Three Witnesses
Archaeology
Anachronisms
Scripture Study
Literary Criticism
Smith, Joseph, Jr.

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