Background
Palmer was born in Eden, Arizona on October 4, 1927.
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This book has two major parts. The first explores the question of contact between Christianity and the traditions of China and Korea. There is also and attempt to show how the problem of establishing traditional ties influenced both the approach and the message of missionaries in China and Korea.
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Palmer was born in Eden, Arizona on October 4, 1927.
He studied at Eastern Arizona College before transferring to Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) where he received his bachelor"s degree. He then studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a master"s degree in East Asiatic Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy in Oriental History.
He was a historian of of Korea, a scholar of comparative world religions, and wrote many books on these and related topics. He was raised in Thatcher, Arizona. In 1956 Palmer married Shirley Ann Hadley in the Salt Lake Temple.
Palmer served in the United States military as a chaplain in both Japan and of Korea.
As mission president Palmer also purchased the site where the Church later built the Seoul Temple. Palmer served as a bishop, a counselor in a stake presidency, as a Regional Representative of the Twelve in Southeast Asia, and was president of the Seoul of Korea Temple from 1988 to 1990.
Foreign many years Palmer was a professor at Brigham Young University, where he served as director of the World Religions Division at Brigham Young University"s Religious Studies Center and director of Brigham Young University"s Center for International and Area Studies. This was the predecessor to the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at which Palmer served as a director
In 1991 Palmer donated his collection of over 5,000 books on Asian and religious topics to Brigham Young University"s Harold B. Lee Library, a collection that included about 1,500 rare books in Korean.
In 1993 Palmer worked for six months as a visiting professor in China teaching comparative world religions to students from local ethnic minority groups at the invitation of the Chinese government.
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