What Is The Book of Mormon?
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also called the Mormon Church, was launched by Joseph Smith (1805-44) who discovered a new revelation,
the Book of Mormon, which became, along with the Bible, the “latter day” scripture of the new community. The Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young,
established a thriving community in Utah in the 1840s and are today a worldwide church.
The Pluralism Project, Harvard University
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The Book of Mormon, as its modern subtitle states, stands with the Bible as “Another Testament of Jesus Christ.”
Its main purposes are summarized on its title page: to show the remnants of the Book of Mormon people
what great things God did for their forefathers, to make known the covenants of the Lord, and to convince
“Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations.”
Monte S. Nyman and Lisa Bolin Hawkins, BYU Religious Center
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