It will be seen from the foregoing sketch of this celebrated man, that so far as scholarship and trained ability in religious controversy is concerned, he was competent to analyze and make a severe criticism of the Book of Mormon. Rice, of the Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Was the author of a number of works on religious subjects, but is generally remembered through his public debates with Robert Owen, the celebrated English Deist and social reformer Archbishop Purcell, of the Roman Catholic Church, whose diocese was Cincinnati and vicinity Rev. He rounded a college at Bethany, Virginia and was also the founder of the "Christian Baptist," which finally merged (1830) into the "Millennial Harbinger," both as their titles indicate being religious periodicals. Campbell has generally been accounted - and indeed was - one of the most learned divines of the country and century in which he lived. This led to the establishment of a "Reformed Baptist Church," which finally took the name of "Disciples" or "Christians." Mr. He soon parted from this communion, however, and began religious work on independent lines and organized a society whose doctrine was that the Bible should be the sole creed of the church. He came to the United States in 1809, settling in Bethany, Virginia, and for some time filled the position of pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place. The first objection then to be considered is the objection to the book's origin by proposing counter theories of origin.Īlexander Campbell, founder of the sect of the "Disciples," or "Campbellites," as they are more commonly called, was the first who in any formal, public manner assailed the Book of Mormon, and proposed a counter theory of its origin than that given by Joseph Smith.Īlexander Campbell was born in Ireland, 1788, but educated at Glasgow University, Scotland, where he graduated with the title of Doctor of Divinity. Hence Christendom must find some other origin for this book than that given by Joseph Smith. Sectarian Christendom felt that Joseph Smith's story of the book's origin must be overthrown, else what would come of this new revelation, this new dispensation of God's word? Joseph Smith's account of the origin of the book was a direct challenge to the teachings of modern Christendom that revelation had ceased that the awful voice of prophecy would no more be heard that the volume of scripture was forever closed and that the Bible was the only volume of scripture. The necessity for a counter theory was early recognized. I mean those theories that have been advanced to explain its existence in some other way than the accounting for its origin given by Joseph Smith. Schroederīy counter theories of the origin of the Book of Mormon.
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