Dialogue Paperless announces the release of paper #6, by Clyde D. Ford: Jesus and the Father. The Book of Mormon and the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Trinity (click title to download).

ABSTRACT

This study will first briefly review some early history that gave rise to the Christian orthodox doctrines of the Trinity, then summarize the spectrum of beliefs that existed in early nineteenth-century America with the BofM responses as possibly understood by the book’s original audience, and finally examine some of the major suggested BofM interpretations. I shall argue that a case can reasonably be made for multiple BofM interpretations, none of which can conclusively be shown by scholarly means to be the author(s)’ original intention.

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