The New Mormon Challenge

<p>Current facts about Mormonism: </p><ul><li>Over 11 million members.</li><li>Over 60000 full-time missionaries--more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world.</li><li>More than 310000 converts annually.</li><li>As many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles the saying is We baptize a Baptist church every week.)</li><li>Within fifteen years the numbers of missionaries and converts will roughly double.</li><li>Within eighty years with adherents exceeding 267 million Mormonism could become the first world-religion to arise since Islam.</li></ul><p>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 Arguments against Mormon claims are increasingly refuted as outdated misinformed or poorly argued. <em>The New Mormon Challenge</em> is a response to the burgeoning challenge of scholarly Mormon apologetics.</p><p>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. 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.</p><p>But <em>The New Mormon Challenge</em> does not merely challenge Mormon beliefs; it offers the LDS Church and her members ways to move forward. <em>The New Mormon Challenge</em> 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.</p><p>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 Carl Mosser and Paul Owen are respected authorities on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the authors of various books and significant articles on Mormonism.</p><p>With contributors including such respected scholars as Craig L. Blomberg William Lane Craig J. P. Moreland and others The <em>New Mormon Challenge</em> 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.</p>