“Mormons at the Forefront”

Last updated on: May 8, 2016 at 12:59 pm by Dan Peterson

The temple outside Rome — The Rome Italy Temple, shown here in an architect’s rendering, is making solid progress toward completion. (LDS.org)

Responding to the prominent Calvinist theologian Richard Mouw, a friendly critic of Mormonism (whom I respect), the Latter-day Saint scholar Terryl Givens takes up a theme that Truman Madsen raised in BYU Studies 15/1 (1974) (“Are Christians Mormon?”) and that David Paulsen revisited in BYU Studies 45/1 (2006) (“Are Christians Mormon? Reassessing Joseph Smith’s Theology in His Bicentennial”):

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/06/mormons-at-the-forefront

Is Mormonism becoming more orthodox? Or is mainstream Christianity, at least in certain respects, perhaps becoming more “Mormon”?

Google the Madsen and Paulsen articles. They’re exceptionally interesting.

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