Ford reads the Book of Mormon’s teachings about punishment and salvation alongside nineteenth-century Methodist and Universalist debates. He argues that it opposes modern Universalism while incorporating some restorationist concerns about divine fairness, so its theology is more complex than a uniform rejection of universal salvation.
- Clyde D. Ford, “The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 1 (2014): 1–23.
The Book of Mormon’s relation to Universalism is complex.