The Book of Mormon Witnesses and Their Challenge to Secularism

by Daniel C. Peterson

Overview

There has been much comment recently on the growth in numbers of the religious "nones." Not all of them are actually non-theists, but secularism or naturalism is undoubtedly on the rise -- and Latter-day Saints have not escaped damage from the trend. Several recent books and articles have sought to help their readers live with doubt, cope with uncertainty, or find value or joy in the Mormon community even when some, most, or perhaps even all of its founding narrative has come to seem untenable. I believe, however, that naturalism should be directly challenged and that the Book of Mormon is among our best tools for doing so. And the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon are, in turn, some of our best evidences for its truth -- and the only "secular" evidence that the Lord himself has provided.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158895296
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	12/28/2017
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture , #27
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	20
Sales rank:	762,599
File size:	124 KB

About the Author

Daniel C. Peterson (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles) is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at Brigham Young University and is the founder of the University’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, for which he served as editor-in-chief until mid-August 2013. He has published and spoken extensively on both Islamic and Mormon subjects. Formerly chairman of the board of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and an officer, editor, and author for its successor organization, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, his professional work as an Arabist focuses on the Qur’an and on Islamic philosophical theology. He is the author, among other things, of a biography entitled Muhammad: Prophet of God (Eerdmans, 2007).