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Originally posted by prisonchaplain@Jan 6 2006, 10:20 PM
I've finally finished it--and it was an eye-opener.* Mormons and evangelicals who want to understand the other system better, and perhaps your own as well, would do well to read this book.* Its nearly 200 pages are accessible, yet dense with content.* I plan to reread it with a highlighter!* Perhaps most useful for us at this board, is that the Mormon and Evangelical writers here are professors and friends.* Thus, they model interfaith conversation that is intelligent, uncompromising, and yet respectful, and built out of mutual friendship.
For my complete review, see the following:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083081991...glance&n=283155
By the way, if you find the review helpful, give me a vote.* Also, if you find the book worthwhile, recommend it, and cast some votes at the url I gave you...increased traffic will discreetly inform site visitors that this book is generating interest.
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I agree.
It's a great book. I've reviewed it for this site too but I think that was before all the posts were wiped out. I think both parties write well and relate well to one another. I keep a copy handy by my desk - as you can probably tell from a number of my posts.
I followed your link and read some of the reviews at Amazon. There was one that I noticed that is a constant criticism I hear from "Christians" about Mormons who engage in conversations with Evangelicals, namely that Mormons are not honest about what they believe or are hiding their beliefs or watering them down... in other words, says the critic, "Believe what I tell you that you believe or you are a liar." Fortunately this book is free from that kind of nonsense.