Advance Praise

Scott Petersen joins a growing list of Christian writers who are looking carefully at the enormous treasure of early Christian writings that are now available in English. However, few of these writers have scoured this collection as thoroughly and carefully as he. As have many others, he has noted that the earliest Christians' interpretation of the teachings of Christ and the practices of His church differ significantly in direction and emphasis from those of the Christian church that was produced through the agreements presided over by Constantine at Nicea in A.D. 325. But what will be even more intriguing and challenging to Christian readers will be the strong similarities he has found in the pre-Nicean Christian beliefs and practices and a modern Church (founded in 1830) that is gaining thousands of adherents each month from around the world.

Noel B. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts

Scott Petersen's Where Have All the Prophets Gone? is the result of painstaking and careful research from many original and secondary sources. Petersen has done an important work by opening the history of Christianity for our understanding and showing the implications of that history for us today.

James Faulconer
Professor of Philosophy
Brigham Young University

Scott Petersen has approached an old topic with new eyes, adding wonderful insights into Judaeo-Christian religious history from Old Testament through modern times, written from a faith-based perspective.

John A. Tvedtnes
Senior Resident Scholar
Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts