Also: Testing the Claim of Missing Plain and Precious Truths ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Gap of Seventeen Centuries In the spring of 1820, according to his canonized account, a fourteen-year-old farm boy in western New York knelt in a grove of trees and asked which of the churches around him he should join. The…
Category: Church History
The Seed of the Church: From the Arena to the Creed – Four Centuries That Defined the Faith
A narrative synthesis of the Hillsdale College Online Course “Ancient Christianity,” Lectures 2–11, expanded and corroborated with primary sources from the Church Fathers and classical historians. ✦ ✦ ✦ Introduction: The Most Audacious Claim in History Imagine standing in the Roman Forum in the first century and announcing to the crowd that the Creator of…
Begging the Question for a Restored Church: An Apologetic Audit of the LDS Great Apostasy Doctrine
Drawing Lines Around the Truth: How Latter-day Saint Apologetic Method Predetermines Its Conclusions on Early Christian History and the Great Apostasy ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Compass Set Before the Pencil Among the rarer pleasures of a long career spent reading apologetic literature is the discovery of an argument that cannot lose. Not an argument…