Unlike most books on Mormonism, The New Mormon Challenge does not recycle previous material but offers freshly researched and well-documented rebuttals of Mormon claims to the best LDS scholarship. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) currently has over 11 million members and 56,000 full-time missionaries - more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world. These missionaries convert over 310,000 people annually. Partly because Christians lack substantive resources with which they can counter Mormon claims, a staggering number of these converts - perhaps as many as 80 percent - come from Protestant backgrounds. Mormonism's rapidly growing numeric strength is well known. Less widely known is the fact that its members are also growing in academic respectability and are making 2002 Olympic Game efforts to defend and promote their faith in a scholarly manner. The Mormon apologetic is being significantly improved and promoted by professional scholars equipped with the finest educational backgrounds and scholarly tools. This book, written by a team of respected Christians scholars, is a response to the new challenge of Mormon apolgetics. It is intended to serve as a tool to help curb Mormon growth and help Christians who are confronted with the claims of Mormon apologists. Through biblical, historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological discussions, it will aid those sharing the gospel with Mormons and those investing Mormonism in their own.
