{"id":42662,"date":"2017-06-07T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42662"},"modified":"2017-06-07T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:15:52","slug":"mere-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/mere-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mere Christians?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14056\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2014\/10\/idaho-falls-mormon-temple81.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14056\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14056\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2014\/10\/idaho-falls-mormon-temple81-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A temple on the Snake\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking across the Snake River toward the Idaho Falls Temple \u00a0\u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/lds-perspectives-podcast-robert-l-millet-mere-christians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this 27-minute podcast<\/a>, available on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, Nick Galieti interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairmormon.org\/testimonies\/scholars\/robert-l-millet\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Millet<\/a>, former dean of Religious Education and Abraham O. Smoot Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University, regarding the relationship of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a> to the wider Christian world:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/lds-perspectives-podcast-robert-l-millet-mere-christians\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In this 27-minute podcast, available on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, Nick Galieti interviews Robert Millet, former dean of Religious Education and Abraham O. 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