Contrasting views of Mormonism
Friday June 5, 2009
Categories: LDS history
I finally secured a copy of Richard L. Bushman's Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction. Bushman, a historian, is the author of Rough Stone Rolling, the definitive biography of Joseph Smith, as well as the Howard W. Hunter Professor of Mormon...
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David Banack is an attorney living in Jackson Hole. He joined the LDS Church at age 15 and later served a two-year LDS mission to France and Switzerland. He has lived up and down the West Coast, as well as in Fiji, Samoa, Sweden, Utah, and now Wyoming. Dave has been running the Mormon Inquiry site discussing LDS and Christian issues since 2003. He is a website editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and also participates at the LDS weblog Times and Seasons. The views expressed on this blog are his own.Search This Blog
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Wouldn't a First Century Christian Church be more "Christian" than a Fourth Century Church which adapted to an Emperor's sun worship and Hellenism?
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and wouldn't the church which retained Jesus Christ's esoteric ordinances and theology be more "Christian"?
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Dave, I'm pleased you are reviewing this book. I miss your book reviews on the sideblog.
Thanks for the encouragement, Matt. I think Bushman's latest book will be fun to discuss.
I suppose maybe it's because they are neither protestant or catholic, that many claim that they are not christian. I've heard that the mormons believe in a great apostasy of the christian faith and that somehow after the apostles died, the faith was corrupted. I've also heard a catholic apologetist quoting this verse in answer to that charge:
2 Timothy 2:2 and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
God Bless,
David Murdoch,
The verse that I hear more often from those of the Catholic religion is Matt. 16:18. This, of course, does not actually mean that the church would not fall away into an apostate state. Luther and Calvin even recognized the apostate church for what it was and tried to reform it without devine authority. A great many things may have been lost had it not been for both Luther and Calvin and I give due credit to them for that. As is written, "All are called but few are chosen".
This is, of course from an LDS POV.
Mormonism is Christian.
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