271: LDS Church Chief Apologist -- Dr. Daniel C. Peterson Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 August 2011

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University and currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He is a member of the executive council of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Peterson is known for his work as an apologist and scholar on subjects dealing with claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which he is a member. He has served as the editor of the FARMS Review, a periodical produced by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. Peterson is a regular participant in online fora about Mormonism where he discusses the LDS faith and its apologetics.[2] One of his most recent projects has been the development of a website featuring the testimonies of LDS scholars.[3]

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0:29.0	Welcome everyone to the newest edition of the Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:32.7	I'm excited to be a guest host and the interviewer again.
0:36.8	My name is Dan Wotherspoon and this has been a joy in my life to be able to interview
0:43.1	good friends of mine, interesting people, and I really appreciate the good feedback that
0:48.2	we've gotten so far on these other things.
0:50.9	Today we have a treat.
0:52.4	It is the term, the get, perhaps it's the get of the year, to get Dan Peterson with
1:00.0	this.
1:01.0	Dan Peterson is well known to many of us in our audience is certainly one of Mormonism's
1:05.5	leading apologists.
1:07.2	He works with farms.
1:08.3	He works with off and on with fair.
1:10.8	He's part of the NLA Maxwell Institute, but he's also a scholar of the ancient Near East
1:15.3	and especially of Islam, and he's written a great biography of the prophet Muhammad, and
1:22.7	so we're going to get into all that, but mostly just want to get to know him.
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