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I just turned in a paper related to this topic for one of my classes and I figured that it might be handy to gut my bibliography (with links to online copies of these articles when possible) as a resource for others. If I’ve missed any major published journal articles and book reviews, particularly if they’re available online, please let me know.

How Wide the Divide?

Blomberg, Craig L. and Stephen E. Robinson. How Wide the Divide?: A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation. Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity Press, 1997. [Limited Preview Available @ Google Books]

Overview:

Connelly, Matthew R., Craig L. Blomberg, Stephen E. Robinson and BYU Studies Staff. “Sizing Up the Divide: Reviews and Replies.” BYU Studies 38.3 (1999): 163-190. [PDF]

Evangelical Reviews:

Beckwith, Francis J. and W. Howard Hoffman. “With a Grain of Salt: Assessing a Mormon-evangelical dialogue.” Christianity Today 41.14 (November 17, 1997): 57-59. [HTML]

Mosser, Carl and Paul Owen. “Review of How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation [including 'Appendix: Hellenism, Greek Philosophy, and the Creedal "Straightjacket" of Christian Orthodoxy'].”  FARMS Review 11.2 (1999): 103-177. [HTML] [PDF]

Mouw, Richard J. “Can a Real Mormon Believe in Jesus?” Books & Culture 3 (September-October 1997): 11-13. [Excerpt]

Roberts, Phil. “How Wide the Divide—Indeed.” Faith & Mission 17.1 (Fall 1999): 36-46.

Sivulka, Robert M. “Similar yet Different.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 31.3 (Fall 1998): 196-99. [PDF]

Stewart, Robert B. “Notes.” Southwestern Journal of Theology 41.1 (Fall 1998): 124-125.

White, James R. “Reviews.” Christian Research Journal 20 (November-December 1997): 48-51.

LDS Reviews:

England, Eugene. “The Good News—and the Bad.” BYU Studies 38.3 (1999): 191-201. [HTML] [PDF]

Goff, Alan. “Briefly Noted.” First Things 77 (November 1997): 61-62.

Hamblin, William J. and Daniel C. Peterson. “The Evangelical Is Our Brother.” FARMS Review11.2 (1999): 178-209. [HTML] [PDF]

Ostler, Blake T. “Bridging the Gulf.” FARMS Review 11.2 (1999): 103-77. [HTML] [PDF]

Other:

Blomberg, Craig L. “How Wide the Divide? Eleven Years Later, Mormons and Evangelicals in Conversation.” Denver Seminary’s Women’s Forum. 27 February 2008. [AUDIO]

Brink, T. L. “Book Reviews.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35.3-4 (Summer-Fall 1998): 505-506. [Review by a Roman Catholic.]

Cook, Roger D. “How Deep the Platonism?” [a review of "Appendix: Hellenism, Greek Philosophy, and the Creedal 'Straightjacket' of Christian Orthodoxy"]. FARMS Review 11.2 (1999): [HTML] [PDF]

Paulsen, David L. and R. Dennis Potter. “How Deep the Chasm? A Reply to Owen and Mosser’s Review.” FARMS Review 11.2 (1999): 221-64. [HTML] [PDF]

(Note: Special thanks to aquinas on this section for compiling some of these resources onHWD in one of his earlier posts.)

The New Mormon Challenge

Beckwith, Francis J., Carl Mosser and Paul Owen, eds. The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002. [Limited Preview @ Google Books]

Evangelical Reviews:

Brug, John F. “Reviewers’ Desk.” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly 100.2 (Spring 2003): 157-58.

Zuck, Roy B. “Book Reviews.” Bibliotheca Sacra 160.640 (October-December 2003): 486-87.

FARMS Responses:

Barney, Kevin L. “A More Responsible Critique.” FARMS Review 15.1 (2003): 97-146 [HTML] [PDF]

Bickmore, Barry R. “Of Simplicity, Oversimplification and Monotheism.” FARMS Review 15.1 (2003): 215-58. [HTML] [PDF]

Christensen, Kevin. “A Response to Paul Owen’s Comments on Margaret Barker.” FARMS Review 14.1 (2002): 131-38. [HTML] [PDF]

Huff, Benjamin I. “Of Course Mormonism is Christian.” FARMS Review 14.1 (2002): 113-30. [HTML] [PDF]

Jackson, Kent P. “Am I a Christian?” FARMS Review 14.1 (2002): 131-38. [HTML] [PDF]

Johnson, Hollis R. “The Big Bang: What Does It Mean for Us?” FARMS Review 16.2 (2004): 277-312. [HTML] [PDF]

Ostler, Blake T. “Evil: A Real Problem for Evangelicals.” FARMS Review 15.1 (2003): 201-213. [HTML] [PDF]

—. “Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought.” FARMS Review 17.2 (2005): 253-320. [HTML] [PDF]

Paulsen, David L. “A General Response to the New Mormon Challenge.” FARMS Review14.1 (2002): 99-112. [HTML] [PDF]

Roper, Matthew and John A. Tvedtnes. “One Small Step.” FARMS Review 15.1 (2003): [HTML] [PDF]

See Also:

Blake Ostler’s TNMC Reviews at FAIR

Summer 2005 Issue of SBJT

Beckwith, Francis J. “Sects in the City: Mormonism and the Philosophical Perils of Being a Missionary Faith.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 14-30. [PDF]

Brand, Chad Owen. “The Mormon Appeal, Yesterday and Today.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 4-13. [PDF]

Copan, Paul. “Creation ex Nihilo or ex Materia? A Critique of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 32-55. [PDF]

Moore, Russell D., et al. “The SBJT Forum: Speaking the Truth in Love.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 70-81. [PDF]

Mosser, Carl. “Evil, Mormonism and the Impossibility of Perfection Ab Initio: An Irenaean Defense.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 56-69. [PDF]

Wellum, Stephen J. “Editorial: Evangelicalism, Mormonism and the Gospel.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 2-3. [PDF]

FARMS Response:

Midgley, Louis. “Orders of Submission.” FARMS Review 18.2 (2006): 189-228. [HTML] [PDF]

Other Books and Articles of Interest

Beckwith, Francis J. and Stephen E. Parrish. The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis. Lewiston, N. Y.: Mellen, 1991.

Reviews:

—- Ostler, Blake T. “The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis [Review].”FARMS Review 8.2 (1996): 99-146. [HTML] [PDF]

—- Paulsen, David L. “Book Reviews.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 35.2 (April 1994): 118-120.

—- Streett, R. Alan. “Book Reviews.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39.2 (June 1996): 316. [PDF]

Cowan, Douglas E. Bearing False Witness?: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult. Westport: Praeger, 2003. [Limited Preview @ Google Books]

Reviews:

—- Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and David M. Whitchurch. “Assessing the Countercult.” FARMS Review 17.1 (2005): 311-36. [HTML] [PDF]

—- Midgley, Louis. “Cowan on the Countercult.” FARMS Review 16.2 (2004): 395-404. [HTML] [PDF]

Holding, James Patrick. The Mormon Defenders: How Latter-day Saint Apologists Misinterpret the Bible. Self-published: 2001.

Reviews:

—- McGregor, Russell C. “The Anti-Mormon Attackers.” FARMS Review 14.1 (2002): 315-20. [HTML] [PDF]

—- See also: Holding, James Patrick. “A Response to Russell McGregor’s FARMS Review ofThe Mormon Defenders.”

Midgley, Louis. “Editor’s Introduction: Debating Evangelicals.” FARMS Review 20.2 (2008): xi-xlviii. [HTML] [PDF]

Millet, Robert L. A Different Jesus?: The Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Foreword and afterword by Richard J. Mouw. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. [Limited Preview Available @ Google Books]

Reviews:

—- “Book Notes.” FARMS Review 17.1 (2005): 363-64. [HTML] [PDF]

—- Huff, Peter A. “Book Reviews.”  Anglican Theological Review 88.1 (Winter 2006): 137-38.

—- Kerns, Travis. “Book Reviews.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 9.2 (Summer 2005): 95-96. [PDF]

—- “Reviews.” First Things 156 (October 2005):  67-68.

Millet, Robert L. and Gerald R. McDermott. Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate. Grand Rapids, Mich.: BrazosPress, 2007.

Reviews:

—- Huff, Peter A. “Book Reviews.” Missiology 36.2 (April 2008): 263.

—- Webb, Stephen H. “Review of Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate – By Robert L. Millet and Gerald R. McDermott.” Reviews in Religion and Theology 15.3 (July 2008): 426-29.

Millet, Robert L. and Gregory C. V. Johnson. Bridging the Divide: The Continuing Conversation Between a Mormon and an Evangelical. Rhinebeck, NY.: Monkfish, 2007.

Reviews:

—- “Book Notes.” FARMS Review 20.1 (2008): 249-52. [HTML] [PDF]

Musser, Donald W. and David L. Paulsen, eds. Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2008. [Limited Preview @ Google Books]

Reviews:

—- Davies, Douglas James. “Book Reviews.” BYU Studies 47.4 (2008): 143-46. [HTML]

—- Lane, Jennifer. “Book Reviews.” BYU Studies 47.4 (2008): 139-142. [HTML]

—- Livingston, Richard T. “Gazing Into the Face of the Other.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 42.2 (Summer 2009): 150-69. [PDF]

—- “Book Notes.” FARMS Review 20.1 (2008): 252-54. [HTML] [PDF]

Owen, Paul and Carl Mosser. “Mormon Scholarship, Apologetics and Evangelical Neglect: Losing the Battle and Not Knowing It?,” Trinity Journal 19.2 (1998): 179-205. [HTML]

Rowe, David L. I [Love] Mormons: A New Way to Share Christ with Latter-day Saints. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2005. [NOTE: This one is more evangelism-oriented than dialogue or debate-oriented, as the title would suggest. However, it's endorsed by Craig Blomberg of How Wide the Divide? fame as well as Terry C. Muck, who is currently organizing the Evangelical Christian Chapter of the Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy, so I'm including it on here as a resource for evangelicals to consider.]

Reviews:

—- “Book Notes.” FARMS Review 17.2 (2005): 496-98. [HTML] [PDF]

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I have a few more articles to add from Christianity Today, but in the meantime, let me know if there are any significant articles, books, or book reviews I’ve missed.