In Mormon Circles: Gentiles, Jack Mormons, and Latter-Day Saints
By James Coates.
Description
In this book, James Coates tackles the mysterious Mormon Church. In 1823, Joseph Smith claimed he beheld an angel named Moroni on his father's impoverished farm near Palmyra, N.Y. According to Smith, Moroni--a resurrected member of a vanished American tribe that migrated to America from Israel--had appeared to him in order to guide him to a hill called Cumorah. There, by using a "seer stone," Smith apparently uncovered an Old Testament-era breastplate inscribed with the names of God's saved and a pair of sacred stone spectacles called the Urim and the Thummin. He also cl...
ISBN(s)
0201517582, 9780201517583
