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26208
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Book
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English
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Webb, Stephen H.
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Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
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Oxford
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Oxford University Press
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2013
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217
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Mormons are adamant that they are Christian, and eloquent writers within their own faith have tried to make this case, but no theologian outside the LDS church has ever tried to demonstrate just how Christian they are. Stephen H. Webb's Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints fills this void, as the author writes neither as a critic nor a defender of Mormonism but as a sympathetic observer who is deeply committed to engaging with Mormon ideas.
Webb is unique in taking Mormon theology seriously by showing how it provides plausible and in some instances even persuasive alternatives to many traditional Christian doctrines. His book can serve as an introduction to Mormonism, but it goes far beyond that: Webb explains how Mormonism is a branch of the Christian family tree that extends well beyond what most Christians have ever imagined. His account of their creative appropriation of the Christian tradition is meant to inspire more traditional Christians to reconsider the shape of many basic Christian beliefs.
Mormon Christianity is not all affirming and celebratory. It ends with a call to Mormons to be more focused on Christian essentials and an invitation to other Christians to be more imaginative in considering Mormon alternatives to traditional doctrines. -
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"Tempered for Glory" : Brigham Young's Cosmological Theodicy
"There's the Boy I Can Trust" : Dennison Lott Harris' First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smith's "Last Charge" to the Twelve Apostles
Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 1 : Definitions and Development
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Joseph Smith and the Recovery of "Eternal Man"
Martin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism : Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Religious Dialogue across Lines of Difference : Mormons, Evangelicals, and Others Agreeing to Disagree
Stephen Webb : In Memoriam
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
Thomas Aquinas Meets Joseph Smith : Toward a Mormon Ethics of Natural Law -
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Are Christians Mormon? Reassessing Joseph Smith's Theology in His Bicentennial
Banishing the Cross : The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Defence of Polygamy, by a Lady in Utah : In a Letter to Her Sister in New Hampshire
Exploring Mormon Thought : The Attributes of God, Volume 1
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Many Histories
Mapping Mormonism : An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Narrating Apostasy and the LDS Quest for Identity
Of God and Gods
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
Reflections on Mormon Materialism
Rube Goldberg Machines : Essays in Mormon Theology
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Seeking the Face of the Lord : Joseph Smith and the First Temple Tradition
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Essential Brigham Young
The God Who Weeps : How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
Tracking the Sincere Believer : "Authentic" Religion and the Enduring Legacy of Joseph Smith Jr.
When Souls Had Wings : Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought