Current facts about Mormonism *Over 11 million members. *Over
60,000 full-time missionaries---more than any other single
missionary-sending organization in the world. *More than 310,000
converts annually. *As many as eighty percent of converts come from
Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles, the saying is, We
baptize a Baptist church every week. ) *Within fifteen years, the
numbers of missionaries and converts will roughly double. *Within
eighty years, with adherents exceeding 267 million, Mormonism could
become the first world-religion to arise since Islam. You may know
the statistics. What you probably don t know are the advances the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is making in
apologetics and academic respectability. With superb training,
Mormon scholars outclass many of their opponents. Arguments against
Mormon claims are increasingly refuted as outdated, misinformed, or
poorly argued. The New Mormon Challenge is a response to the
burgeoning challenge of scholarly Mormon apologetics. Written by a
team of respected Christian scholars, it is free of caricature,
sensationalism, and diatribe. The respectful tone and responsible,
rigorous, yet readable scholarship set this book in a class of its
own. The New Mormon Challenge recycles no previous material and
duplicates no one s efforts. Instead, responding to the best LDS
scholarship, it offers freshly researched and well-documented
rebuttals of Mormon truth claims. Most of the chapter topics have
never been addressed, and the criticisms and arguments are almost
entirely new. But The New Mormon Challenge does not merely
challenge Mormon beliefs; it offers the LDS Church and her members
ways to move forward. The New Mormon Challenge will help you
understand the intellectual appeal of Mormonism, and it will reveal
many of the fundamental weaknesses of the Mormon worldview. Whether
you are sharing the gospel with Mormons or are investigating
Mormonism for yourself, this book will help you accurately
understand Mormonism and see the superiority of the historic
Christian faith. Outstanding scholarship and sound methodology make
this an ideal textbook. The biblical, historical, scientific,
philosophical, and theological discussions are fascinating and will
appeal to Christians and Mormons alike. Exemplifying Christian
scholarship at its best, The New Mormon Challenge pioneers a new
genre of literature on Mormonism. The Editors Francis J. Beckwith
(Ph.D., Fordham University), Carl Mosser (Ph.D. candidate,
University of St. Andrews), and Paul Owen (Ph.D., University of
Edinburgh) are respected authorities on the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints and the authors of various books and
significant articles on Mormonism. Their individual biographies as
well as information on the book s contributors appear inside. With
contributors including such respected scholars as Craig L.
Blomberg, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, and others, The New
Mormon Challenge is, as Richard Mouw states in his foreword, an
important event for both Protestant evangelicals and Mormons that
models to the evangelical community what it is like to engage in
respectful and meaningful exploration of a viewpoint with which we
disagree on key points. In recent years, Mormon scholars have
produced a body of literature that has been largely ignored by
evangelicals. This current volume takes a giant step forward in
correcting this oversight in a way that is both intellectually
vigorous, yet respectful. ---Ken Mulholland, President, Salt Lake
Theological Seminary Intellectually serious evangelical responses
to the faith of the Latter-day Saints have been depressingly rare.
This book represents a significant contribution to a conversation
that, really, has just begun. ---Daniel Peterson, Brigham Young
University; Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
(FARMS) Finally we have a book from evangelicals in which the
authors have made"
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