272: LDS Church Chief Apologist -- Dr. Daniel C. Peterson Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 August 2011

⏱️ 76 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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0:29.8	Well, Dan, I am ready to play devil's advocate occasionally here and stuff like that.
0:38.0	I, anything I throw at you, here's my rules.
0:43.0	Coming from a place of affection for me, thinking of a lot of people and voices from the background,
0:50.4	and whenever you feel like me saying, you, Dan Peterson, I'm probably most likely meaning
0:55.4	the apologetic enterprise in general.
0:58.2	And so however you want to always say, I'm upset with that too, you know, feel free to do
1:04.5	all that stuff.
1:05.5	So we're going to kind of, you're our guy representing, but I know that you're not necessarily
1:11.5	always.
1:12.5	Now this is the point where I snarl and lie a lot, okay, all right.
1:15.8	Your head spins around.
1:17.1	Good.
1:18.1	Yeah.
1:19.1	Project Falcon.
1:20.1	Wow.
1:21.1	Yeah.
1:22.1	Listen up, distancer.
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