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Mormon Stories Podcast

888: Bert Fuller - An Insider's View of the Maxwell Institute and Critique of Mormon Neo-Apologetics Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In these Mormon Stories episodes, we interview Bert Fuller – PhD student and former researcher for the Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

In Part 1, Bert shares his background as a Mormon and provides an insider’s view of the Maxwell Institute.  Part 2 includes his critique of Mormon Neo-Apologetics and compares its approach to the more traditional form of Mormon apologetics.  Finally in Part 3, Bert shares what his life is like now in terms of spirituality.

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Alright, so now I think it's time to turn in the interview

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and this should probably be its own segment.

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To talk about Neal Apologetics and what your critiques are.

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Because we now have moved, many of us would celebrate the fact that we moved away from

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Daniel Peterson, Lumichly, you know, Bill Hamlin.

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They're pretty much irrelevant now.

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I mean Daniel Peterson might publish a editorial in the desert news every once in a while,

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but nobody really listens to them anymore.

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And you know, part of that is just that they're old, but part of it is they've been deinstitutionalized

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and I think all of us kind of celebrated when that happened,

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not that we wish any personal ill on any of them, we don't.

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But in that sense, the way that apologetics has moved into this new Neal Apologetics fear,

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