''The Foundation for Indigenous Research and Mormonism''

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_Mercury
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Re: ''The Foundation for Indigenous Research and Mormonism''

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antishock8 wrote:I always thought highly of the Mormon Indigenous Leadership Foundation.


I've heard of them. Isn't the auxilliary the c.o.u.g.a.r.s.?
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Re: ''The Foundation for Indigenous Research and Mormonism''

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Daniel Peterson wrote:
ludwigm wrote:[*quote="CaliforniaKid"]... Rather, I'm arguing that FARMS' mainline scholarship has grown out of its apologetic work.[*/quote]
I think You are right.
I guess it's just coincidence, then, that Professors Pike and Parry and Seely and Skinner have degrees in Hebrew biblical studies and Semitics, that I have a degree in Islamic philosophy, that Kristian Heal's doctorate is in Syriac patristics, and etc. Curiously, even though we earned doctorates in those fields, we weren't really interested in them until our postdoctoral sojourns in apologetics taught us to be interested in them.
... and it taught You that those are of reality and as such, are useful for men of sense.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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