Are Mormons moving closer to orthodoxy?

According to Richard Mouw, retired president of Fuller Seminary, they are.

In an article in this May’s issue of First Things, he points to two lines of evidence for this. The first is that leaders of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) seem to be “signaling a decision to downplay” the doctrine that God was once a man. Mouw refers to the couplet by early LDS President Lorenzo Smith, “As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.” He recognizes that the first half of this couplet denies any ontological difference between God and man, thus placing Mormon theology far beyond the orthodox pale.

For the rest of this article at First Things, click here.