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A FAIR Analysis of: 'Mormonism: Shadow or Reality?'
A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Note: This is a review of claims and/or responses to misrepresentations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found in this work. The inclusion of an author's work here does not imply that he or she is "anti-Mormon," or that none of his or her works have value. Those who do not wish to examine the claims contained in what some would consider an "anti-Mormon" work are advised to proceed no further.
  • Other works by these authors:
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism of the Book "Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon", Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1994).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Answering Mormon Scholars (Vol. 2): A Response to Criticism Raised by Mormon Defenders, [Vol. 2] (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1996).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Archaeology and the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1969; reprinted with second appendix, 1972).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1990).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Major Problems of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1989).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, 5th edition, (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Case Against Mormonism, 2 vols., (Salt Lake City, 1967).
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979).( Index of claims )
  • Sandra Tanner, "Bible and Book of Mormon Contradictions," Utah Lighthouse Ministry, no date, #1-#7.
  • On the Tanners' tactics more generally, see: Robert L. and Rosemary Brown, They Lie In Wait To Deceive, [Vol. 1]: The Amazing Story How "Dr." or "Prof." Dee Jay Nelson, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, and Other Anti-Mormons Work to Obstruct and Distort the Truth (Brownsworth Publishing Co. Inc., 1981).
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Sub-articles

  • Index of claims
    Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality indexed by page number. (Link)

About this work

The point is, we're trying to be accurate. We want to be straightforward, we want to have the research we put out be reliable so that people can go look it up for themselves and see that in fact is what the case is. So we're upset when we see people stretching things on either side.
— Sandra Tanner, taped interview by Scott Faulring, 10 February 1982, in Faulring, "An Oral History of Modern Microfilm Company," Special Collections Library, Brigham Young University, 297.

Reviews of this work

  • Matthew P. 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

Further reading

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