Master Timeline of Mopologetics

[_moksha]

When did Drs. Peterson and Midgley join FARMS?

[_Dr Moore]

A few more come to mind. I would be happy to help hunt down dates.

* Publication of the gospel topics essays
* Holland scolding the MI
* Escalation in speeches from LDS authorities on doubts & questions about history (Holland, Renlund, Corbridge, HJ Eyring)
* Pre-empting of Wayment's forthcoming JST article with a translation essay addenda
* Year in Polygamy started
* Vogel's Joseph Smith biography
* Vogel's Book of Abraham videos published
* Hales: Joseph Smith's Polygamy
* Jana Reiss: The Next Mormons
* Ostler: Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question

[_Shulem]

A few more come to mind. I would be happy to help hunt down dates.

* Publication of the gospel topics essays

HOLD on! I feel the Spirit. Let me go to Mormon Think and track down those links and dates and compile an easy list for the above.

[_Stem]

2005
2006

2005 ended with the release of Rough Stone Rolling, and merry Smithmas. Such a big Mormon year, it felt, but little notice in the world of mopologetics.

Oh also in 2005 was the The Worlds of Joseph Smith conference:
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/worlds-joseph-smith

[_moksha]

2005 ended with the release of Rough Stone Rolling, and merry Smithmas. Such a big Mormon year, it felt, but little notice in the world of mopologetics.

Apologists even deny that Smithmas happened back in 2005.

[_Shulem]

CHURCH ESSAYS

2013
8 December The Church released the first Essay Race and the Priesthood which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Race and the Priesthood - Response to LDS.org

2013
November The Church released the Essay First Vision Accounts which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at The First Vision - Response to LDS.org and The First Vision

2013
17 December The Church released the Essay Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah - Response to LDS.org


2013
30 December The Church released the Essay Book of Mormon Translation which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Book of Mormon Translation - Response to LDS.org

2014
31 January The Church released the Essay Book of Mormon and DNA Studies which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Book of Mormon and DNA Studies - Response to LDS.org

2014
January The Church released the Essay Are Mormons Christian? which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Are Mormons Christian? - Response to LDS.org

2014
The Church released the Essay Becoming Like God which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Becoming Like God - Response to LDS.org

2014
12 May The Church released the Essay Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Peace & Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints - Response to LDS.org

2014
8 July The Church released the Essay Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham - Response to LDS.org


2014
22 October The Church released the Essay Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Plural Marriage in Kirtland & Nauvoo - Response to LDS.org

2014
22 October The Church released the Essay The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage - Response to LDS.org

2015
23 October The Church released the Essay Mother in Heaven which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Mother in Heaven - Response to LDS.org

2015
23 October The Church released the Essay Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women which has been thoroughly debunked by Mormon Think at Joseph Smith's Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women - Response to LDS.org

[_Tom]

A few notes:

1988

I'd note that the Spring 1988 issue of the FARMS newsletter Insights announced that FARMS would publish an annual review of books on the Book of Mormon and that Daniel Peterson had "agreed to serve as editor."

1991

Volume 3 of Review of Books on the Book of Mormon is published. Daniel C. Peterson, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at BYU, is editor.

This is too detailed for a timeline, but I am reminded of the infamous line in that volume: "Korihor's back, and this time he's got a printing press" (from Stephen Robinson's review of Dan Vogel, ed., The Word of God). The May 1991 issue of Insights quoted this line and described Rodger Anderson's Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined as "expressly anti-Mormon." This set off a kerfuffle between FARMS and Signature Books that included a letter sent to FARMS by an attorney representing Signature Books demanding that FARMS publish a retraction and apology in its newsletter (one perspective on the episode is provided by Dr. Peterson in his introduction to volume 4 of RBBM). The July 1991 issue of Insights featured a carefully worded "Correction or Clarification."

[_Tom]

1993
Michael D. Rhodes, former professor of physics at the Air Force Academy, joins the FARMS Board as he pursues a PhD at BYU.
1994
William Hamblin inserts an acrostic reading, "Metcalfe is Butthead" in issue 6.1 of Review of Books on the Book of Mormon. The incident was reported in Deseret News on March 22/23.

I might note that issue 6.1 was devoted entirely to New Approaches to the Book of Mormon (or, perhaps, note the book's publication in 1993).

[_Holy Ghost]

I've heard that Daniel Peterson testified in the trial of the abductor of Elizabeth Smart, and that he threatened legal action against this board. I have no idea about that, why this board would perhaps be considered for legal action by Peterson because he was testifying in the Smart case or when that might have been. If that really happened, that might be worth including in the timeline.

[_Holy Ghost]

That's definitely in the plan, HG. The TIME Lightbox photo essay had some rather rustic-looking photos of Mormons, If I recall correctly.

Rustic-looking photos set off the Mopologists? Sounds pretty thin-skinned to me.

If someone has a link to the photos, I'd like to take a look.