Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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Note: This page is not an exhaustive treatment of this author or his/her work. It serves as an index for reviews of specific works and/or responses to attacks on LDS Church made by this author. The inclusion of an author here does not imply that he/she is necessarily "anti-Mormon" (though he/she may be), or that none of his/her work(s) have value.

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Notes

Sandra Tanner and her late husband are certainly among the most prolific anti-Mormon authors. However, non-Mormon scholars of LDS issues have noted that the Tanners display a consistent bias in their work:

[The Tanners] always assume the worst possible motives in assessing the actions of Mormon leaders, even when those leaders faced extremely complex problems with no simple solutions.... Every bit of evidence, even if it could be most plausibly presented in a positive way, is represented as yet another nail in the coffin being prepared for the Mormon Church. There is no spectrum of colors, only blacks and whites, good guys and villains in the Tanners' published writings.... The Tanners have repeatedly assumed a holier-than-thou stance, refusing to be fair in applying the same debate standards of absolute rectitude which they demand of Mormonism to their own actions, writings, and beliefs.[1]

FAIR Wiki articles

These wiki articles address claims made by this author.

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Reviews of author's work(s)

  • Todd Compton's response to Jerald and Sandra Tanners' Review of In Sacred Loneliness off-site
  • Tom Nibley, "A Look at Jerald and Sandra Tanner's Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon," FARMS Review of Books 5/1 (1993): 273–289. off-site PDF link
  • L. Ara Norwood, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," FARMS Review of Books 3/1 (1991): 158–169. off-site
  • Matthew Roper, "A Black Hole That's Not So Black (Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism of the Book, vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner)," FARMS Review of Books 6/2 (1994): 156–203. off-site PDF link
  • Matthew Roper, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," FARMS Review of Books 3/1 (1991): 170–187. off-site
  • Matthew Roper, "Review of Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," FARMS Review of Books 4/1 (1992): 169–215. off-site PDF link
  • Matthew Roper, "Unanswered Mormon Scholars (Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism Raised by Mormon Defenders)," FARMS Review of Books 9/1 (1997): 87–145. off-site PDF link
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism of the Book, vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," FARMS Review of Books 6/2 (1994): 204–249. off-site PDF link
  • John A. Tvedtnes and Matthew Roper, "Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha: Shadow or Reality? (Review of Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha by Jerald and Sandra Tanner)," FARMS Review of Books 8/2 (1996): 326–372. off-site PDF link
  • John A. Tvetnes, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," FARMS Review of Books 3/1 (1991): 188–230. off-site

Endnotes

  1. [back]  Lawrence Foster, "Career Apostates:Reflections on the Works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17:2 (Summer 1984): 45–46. off-site

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