Richard Lloyd Anderson

Richard Lloyd Anderson was an American lawyer and theologist of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. His book Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses is widely considered the definitive work on this subject.

The Strength of the Mormon Position

Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 1

The reader of Theological Foundations will see for himself that Mormonism is a religion of intellectual adventure. Joseph Smith reported divine instructions not to rely on traditional theologies, and Professor McMurrin shows how radical are…

The Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith

Articles/Essays – Volume 04, No. 2

Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 13–28
Mormon history is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is hope for a new era, in which Mormon and non-Mormon may meet on the common ground of objective fact.

The New English Bible: Three Views: The New Testament

Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 4

Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was essential.…