New book on Mormon history focuses on church’s continual changes
Book review: ‘American Zion: A New History of Mormonism’ by Benjamin E. Park, ★★★★★
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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…