CES instructor, disfellowshipped 2004
Grant H. Palmer
1940–2017
Birth year: CES instructor; author of An Insider's View of Mormon Origins. Wikidata 'Grant H. Palmer (1940-2017)'
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The First Vision
CES instructor; critical author
Palmer's An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (2002) laid the accounts side by side in parallel columns and argued that a forgiveness epiphany was later rewritten into a divine commission. He was disciplined by the Church over the book; BYU Studies answered it in print.
Speaking Truth to Power
CES instructor, disfellowshipped 2004
Palmer taught in the Church Educational System for thirty-four years and then published An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Signature, 2002), arguing that the founding narratives are better read as inspired fiction than as history. He was disfellowshipped on 13 December 2004 and resigned in 2010. The 'insider' of the title was the point and the offence: the corpus holds the book in full.
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Grant Palmer is disfellowshipped
Palmer had taught in the Church Educational System for thirty-four years before publishing An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, which argued that the founding narratives are better read as inspired fiction than as history. He was disfellowshipped, and resigned his membership in 2010.
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An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
Grant H. Palmer
The case that the Moroni narrative was standardised after 1830 and that the earlier tellings describe a different kind of visitant.
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