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About Me
- Chris
- has an MA in Christan History from Wheaton College and a BA in Biblical Studies (with a minor in Classics) from Fresno Pacific University. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Religions in North America at Claremont Graduate University.
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3 comments:
Chris,
I'm sorry to see that you've provided a link to a 2008 blogpost that is incorrect in nearly every detail. I'm not sure where the author of "Grant Hardy and the Book of Mormon" got his information, but in the three years that the Book of Mormon Roundtable met, Elaine Pagels and Richard Bushman were never participants. Mark Thomas was an employee of BYU at the time but not a professor. The group was never on the verge of securing a publication contract with Oxford (in fact, a proposal was never even submitted to OUP, though this was something that we had discussed). I did not single-handedly bring the project to a halt because some participants were not treating the Book of Mormon as an ancient text. And indeed, I don't have a problem with people viewing the book as a nineteenth-century work. I did write the quotation attributed to me, but it was a standard FARMS-style opening in a twenty-year-old non-academic publication aimed at Latter-day Saints. My ideas have matured a great deal since then (thanks in part to Mark Thomas's Roundtables). If anyone is interested in my current thinking, they can read Understanding the Book of Mormon.
Grant Hardy
Grant,
Thank you for the clarification. I shouldn't have linked it. I wasn't sure what to make of it when I read it. I tried to comment there in order to ask for documentation, but the blog in question has comments disabled. Someone else told me they thought it was accurate, but evidently they were wrong. I've removed the link.
Peace,
-Chris
Thanks, Chris. And by the way, I was wrong on one point--Richard Bushman did attend one of our roundtables. (Alas, trying to be as accurate as possible is a never-ending endeavor.)
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