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Response to "Deconstructing Mormonism"
A FAIR Analysis of: Deconstructing Mormonism: An Analysis and Assessment of the Mormon Faith A work by author: Thomas Riskas
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Reviews of this work
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, "Sophic Box and Mantic Vista: A Review of Deconstructing Mormonism"
Kevin Christensen, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, (October 11, 2013)Riskas’s Desconstructing Mormonism claims that believers are trapped in a box for which the instructions for how to get out are written on the outside of the box. He challenges believers submit to an outsider test for faith. But how well does Riskas describe the insider test? And is his outsider test, which turns out to be positivism, just a different box with the instructions for how to get out written on its outside? Ian Barbour’s Myths Models and Paradigms provides instructions on how to get out of the positivistic box that Riskas offers, and at the same time provides an alternate outsider test that Mormon readers can use to assess what Alma refers to as “cause to believe.”
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