New book on Mormon history focuses on church’s continual changes

Book review: ‘American Zion: A New History of Mormonism’ by Benjamin E. Park, ★★★★★

Historian Benjamin Park speaks at a bookstore and art gallery in Provo, Utah, recently. Photo by G.F. Erichsen.

A major rupture split American Protestantism during the 1920s and early ’30s in what has become known as fundamentalist-modernist controversy. The dispute pitted fundamentalists, those who stressed what they saw as fundamentals of the Christian…