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FARMS Puts Mouw to Work Immediately, As Predicted
01/12/2005 - James White
Once again that scene in I, Robot comes to mind, where Spooner blows away a robot and looks at the lady and says, "Somehow, I don't think 'I told you so' really says it all" or something to that effect (I haven't invested in the movie yet). When Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary, wrongly blasted everyone who had accurately represented the LDS Church in their evangelistic and apologetic efforts over the years (as we have documented--see the entries for 11/22, 11/24, and 11/30), I said that he had just been used, hopefully unwittingly, by LDS apologists so as to provide to them the very kind of weapon they long for. And I didn't have to wait long for the fulfillment of my prophecy. Today I read a review of Douglas E. Cowan's Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult published in the FARMS Review, written by none other than Louis Midgley. Now, first, yes, that's the same Douglas Cowan who could not even begin to offer a meaningful defense of his statements about me when I challenged him to do so (here's the correspondence). But, of course, Midgley, never one to be objective, finds the work very useful. But I could not help but get the feeling that Midgley's review was but a pretext for trumpeting Mouw's statements in print. The article begins,By bearing false witness against our LDS neighbors, we evangelicals have often sinned not only against Mormons but against the God who calls us to be truth-tellers.
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FARMS on Irenaeus
01/10/2005 - James White
Quite some time ago we corrected the constant, errant, repeated misuse of Irenaeus by LDS apologists, and in particular, the usage by Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks in one of the few specifically counter-evangelical apologetic books out there, Offenders for a Word. We had posted this information quite some time ago:In my book Is the Mormon My Brother I noted the tremendous misrepresentation of the early Church Father Irenaeus found in the work of Stephen Robinson (Are Mormons Christians? Bookcraft, 1991, pp. 60-65) in the pages of Offenders for a Word, and in the new FARMS publication edited by Robert Millet and Noel Reynolds, Latter-day Christianity: 10 Basic Issues (p. 26, though this may just be part of Robinson's contribution). The specific citation provided by Peterson and Ricks is as follows: ...
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Another Excellent Article at IRR
01/07/2005 - James White
An excellent article in light of my comments on the continuing campaign of Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary, to give aid and comfort to LDS apologists, hopefully out of ignorance, though, from what this article indicates, it may just be out of that same kind of academic hubris that insists upon seeing "fellow scholars" as colleagues even when they profess a different gospel, teach a different Christ, and worship a different god. Well worth the read. Hat tip to Jeff Downs, the master of all internet resources. :-)08:41:47 - Category: Mormonism - Link to this article -
Major Developments in The Book of Mormon
01/05/2005 - James White
More on this later, but there are major developments in the DNA and the Book of Mormon story. Read about it here. This is the kind of thing that could very well end up splitting the LDS Church between the "We have latter-day revelation and refuse to give up on old time Mormonism" of central and southern Utah and the modern "let's re-contextualize the BoM into a parable type thing and not worry about the historicity of our faith or Joseph Smith or anything else" liberals. Stay tuned.15:09:15 - Category: Mormonism - Link to this article -
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