Item Detail
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29350
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Journal Article
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English
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Duffy, John-Charles
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Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith : How Apologetics is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy
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Sunstone
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May 2004
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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2004
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22-55
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"Over the past twenty years, there has been a dramatic rise in the quantity, sophistication, and prestige of LDS apologetics. The bulk of this discourse has been produced under the auspices of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), which since 1985 has enjoyed a publishing partnership with Church-owned Deseret Book and, in 1997, received official status (and thus Church funding) as an entity of Brigham Young University. Drawing on the gifts of LDS academics from various disciplines, FARMS has published a wealth of literature that, in the eyes of many Saints, establishes the plausibility of LDS faith claims on scholarly grounds. In addition, the FARMS Review has been an important outlet for polemical essays rebutting challenges to LDS orthodoxy raised by Christian counterculturists, Mormon revisionists, or secular academics..." [From the text]
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