A editorial review on Understanding Mormonism
This book was written with the hope that it might be of use in explaining Mormonism and the restored Gospel of Christ to the members of other persuasions, and in a way that will be both understandable and technically correct. At the same time, it should help Mormons to better comprehend their own doctrines, and to refute the arguments of would-be detractors that their beliefs are "unbiblical" and "non-Christian."Indeed, it has now become possible--thanks to a flood of new information from the time of the Primitive Church--to show that those Latter-day Saint doctrines which recent "orthodoxy" rejects as "non-Christian" were widely known and essential to early Christians, and were in no way "unbiblical." These included such doctrines as the preexistence of the soul, the Three Degrees of Glory, a non-Trinitarian Godhead, the deification of man, eternal marriage, baptism for the dead, and the basic pattern of the Temple experience, doctrine...