Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Pre-Christian Christianity/CriticalSources

Source(s) of criticism

• [Letter on Mormonism, 26 July 1841,] Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 15, no. 52 (11 August 1841). off-site
• Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 11–12, 14–16. off-site
• Oliver Barr, “‘This wisdom descendeth not from above’” [Mormonism—No. 2] Christian Palladium (Union Mills, New York) 5, no. 16 (15 December 1836): 241–43. off-site
• Oliver Barr, “Mormonism No. iii,” Christian Palladium (Union Mills, New York) 5, no. 18 (16 January 1837): 273-75. off-site
• Alexander Campbell, Delusions (Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1832), 86 of original; originally published in Millennial Harbinger 2 (7 February 1831): 85–96. off-site O. Cowdery reply #1 #2 Full title
• Alexander Campbell, “Signs of the Times,” Millennial Harbinger 5, no. 4 (April 1834): 148, note. off-site
• Samuel Haining, Mormonism Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary, and Found Wanting: The Substance of Four Lectures (Douglas: Robert Fargher, 1840), 37, 59. off-site
• Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 77–78. (Affidavits examined) off-site
• Parley P. Pratt to Oliver Cowdery, 26 May 1836, "[No title]," Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 2 no. 8 (May 1836), 318–20. off-site
  Discusses Pratt's missionary encounter with this criticism.
• Walter Scott, “Mormon Bible–No. I,” The Evangelist (Carthage, Ohio) 9, no. 1 (1 January 1841): 17–21. off-site
• La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 9 (3 March 1838): 34. off-site

Past LDS response(s)

• John Hardy, Hypocrisy Exposed (Boston: Albert Morgan, 1842), 3-12 off-site Full title