The Apostate Myth of Mormon Apologetics Mormon apologetics, as exemplified by the publications of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, is typified by ad hominem attacks masking shoddy scholarship. I assert that neither Dan Peterson, nor the Mormon Studies Review (and its predecessors) are guilty of the allegation implicit in the Apostate Myth of Mormon Apologetics (henceforth "AMMA"). This myth consists of the notion that Mormon apologetics, as exemplified by the publica