Mormonism Explained: What Latter-day Saints Teach and Practice

Sociologist Rodney Stark estimates that by 2080 Mormonism willhave 267 million adherents. As a leading rival to biblicalChristianity in both America and Latin America it is a religion tobe reckoned with. However Mormons are not so much a group to befeared by Christians says author Andrew Jackson as a missionfield to be cultivated. As a professor and a pastor in a city that boasts a large LDScommunity Jackson has had not only many discussions with Mormonneighbors but with current and ex-members from every level of thechurch hierarchy. These conversations have led him to study thisreligion and write this book. His systematic concise and well-documented work offers aneasy-reading explanation of Mormon teaching and practice today.This book is the first place readers will want to turn for a primeron Mormonisms origins and specific doctrines and what Mormonsbelieve and why.