Writer and editor, Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, Brigham Young University2
Larry E. Morris was a writer and editor with the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University when this was written
Larry E. Morris — Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
Morris argues that accounts of ordinary seeing and handling, especially the Eight’s testimony and reports from Smith’s household, support the existence of a physical set of metal plates. He distinguishes that historical conclusion from the religious judgment that an angel delivered an ancient record, and argues that hearsay about visionary sight does not outweigh the Eight’s own accounts.