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The Spaulding Manuscript as Jeffersonian idealism, and not a Book of Mormon template

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Doug Gibson

(To see Cal Grondahl’s cartoon that goes with this post, click here) Solomon Spaulding’s “Manuscript Found,” an unpublished novel by the 18th and 19th century minister, is a topic of interest to anti-Mormons. In 1834, Eber Howe, author of “Mormonism … Read More