{"product_id":"9780310231943-the-new-mormon-challenge","title":"The New Mormon Challenge","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eResponding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement\u003cbr\u003eWritten by an international team of respected Christian scholars, this freshly researched rebuttal of Mormon truth will aid those sharing the gospel with Mormons and those investigating Mormonism on their own. It will help readers to understand Mormonism through biblical, historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological discussions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurrent facts about Mormonism:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver 11 million members.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver 60,000 full-time missionaries—more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore than 310,000 converts annually.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles, the saying is, “We baptize a Baptist church every week.”)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWithin fifteen years, the numbers of missionaries and converts will roughly double.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWithin eighty years, with adherents exceeding 267 million, Mormonism could become the first world-religion to arise since Islam.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou 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 Arguments against Mormon claims are increasingly refuted as outdated, misinformed, or poorly argued. \u003cem\u003eThe New Mormon Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e is a response to the burgeoning challenge of scholarly Mormon apologetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eThe New Mormon Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e does not merely challenge Mormon beliefs; it offers the LDS Church and her members ways to move forward. \u003cem\u003eThe New Mormon Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutstanding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith contributors including such respected scholars as Craig L. Blomberg, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, and others, The \u003cem\u003eNew Mormon Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55092300808566,"sku":"9780310231943","price":24.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28705195.jpg?v=1734506774","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780310231943-the-new-mormon-challenge","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}