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A FAIR Analysis of: 'The Changing World of Mormonism' A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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The Tanners seem to be playing a skillful shell game in which the premises for judgment are conveniently shifted so that the conclusion is always the same—negative.
— Lawrence Foster^[1]

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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): 49.

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