Thanks to Robert Boylan and his valuable blog for bringing this comment to my attention, from the non-Mormon historian (and biographer of Brigham Young) John Turner:
” . . . it no longer makes sense to consider Mormonism a ‘new religion,’ a ‘new world religion,’ or even a ‘new religious tradition,’ if that implies a supersession of or definitive break with Christianity. Instead, Mormonism is a vibrant new branch of Christianity, one in which temples, ordinances, and prophets have taken their place alongside a Jesus who is both utterly Christian and distinctively Mormon. (John G. Turner, The Mormon Jesus: A Biography [Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2016], p. 294).
I’ve argued at length that there is no basis whatever, in either semantics or scripture or history, for denying the Christianity of the Latter-day Saints. (See here and here.)
Posted from Venice, Italy
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