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An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
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Main article: Grant Palmer
- Lest there be any question, let me say that my intent is to increase faith, not to diminish it.
- — Grant Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, p. ix.
- Palmer's readers may well wonder what kind of faith he is trying to increase, for nothing in the book generates confidence in Joseph Smith or modern scripture.
- — James B. Allen, "Asked and Answered: A Response to Grant Palmer (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 235–286. off-site
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Reviews of this work
- James B. Allen, "Asked and Answered: A Response to Grant Palmer (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 235–286. off-site
- Davis Bitton, "The Charge of a Man with a Broken Lance (But Look What He Doesn't Tell Us) (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 257–272. off-site
- George E. Cobabe, "A Summary of Five Reviews of Grant Palmer's "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" (with a Few Comments of My Own)," (FAIR). FAIR link
- Group, "Statement from the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 255–256. off-site
- Steven C. Harper, "Trustworthy History? (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 273–308. off-site
- Mark Ashurst-McGee, "A One-sided View of Mormon Origins (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 309–364. off-site
- Louis Midgley, "Prying into Palmer (Review of: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins)," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 365–410. off-site