1105: The Spaulding Theory with Bryce Blankenagel Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We're excited to finally bring on Bryce Blankenagel of the Naked Mormonism Podcast to Mormon Stories! His preparation, thorough research, and absolute brilliance are on display as Bryce gives us the context surrounding the Solomon Spaulding Manuscript Theory of The Book of Mormon—even including some of the apologetic arguments against the theory. Bryce concludes the interview with his personal take on the veracity of the theory. Tune in!
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| 0:55.3 | All right, so we're back with Part 2, starting Part 2 of our interview with Bryce Blakenagle, |
| 1:03.0 | the host of Naked Mormonism Podcast and of two other Mormon theme podcasts called Mybuckle |
| 1:10.5 | Mormon and Glassbox Podcast. |
| 1:12.7 | Glassbox Podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | Our first part was given a little bit about Bryce and his background and then providing |
| 1:19.7 | some contextual information for discussion of the Spalding Management Theory. |
| 1:24.6 | Now we're going to dig into the documents themselves, is that right? |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, so we're going to really kind of discuss the apologetics around it, the history around |
| 1:36.0 | this when the actual Oberlin manuscript itself, manuscript story, Kanye Alcreek was discovered, |
| 1:42.2 | rediscovered, and kind of the institutional response to what had happened at this time. |
| 1:49.3 | So at request, you know, LL Rice purchased all of Eberdy House documents from Painsville |
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