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What's News (Volume 1: Number 9) -- July 30, 1997

Late last month Eric Pement of Cornerstone magazine notified Apologia about an ironic discovery. He had located a lecture by LDS writer Noel Reynolds on the Mormon apologetics Web site owned by F.A.R.M.S. (Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies).

Here Reynolds (reproduced in part below) described two unnamed "young evangelical scholars" who he understood to have made sweeping concessions to the enterprise of Mormon apologetics.

These concessions include:

"Mormon scholars and apologists have answered most of the evangelical criticisms.

There are no evangelical books that interact responsibly with contemporary LDS scholarly and apologetic writings.

At the scholarly level, evangelicals are losing the debate with the Mormons.

Evangelicals involved in the counter-cult (anti-Mormon) movement lack the skills and training necessary to answer Mormon scholarly apologetic."

Click here for the partial statement from Reynolds mentioned above which provides the context behind Pement's discovery.

Update -- August 22, 1997

The two "young evangelical scholars" were identified on AR-talk