‘Is Mormonism Christian?’

The indispensable Christian journal, First Things, has an important piece on the subject. It begins, “Mormonism has been much in the news over the past year. The presidential campaign of Mitt Romney was the principal reason, though there were other causes as well: the growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to become the fourth-largest denomination in the United States, for instance, and the prominence of Harry Reid as Senate majority leader. The total number of news articles devoted to the church in the past year more than doubled the previous high, reached during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.”

In another portion, one of the piece’s two authors, Gerald R. McDermott, continues: “Most Christians say Mormonism is not Christian—though their reasons are sometimes awkward.”

Read the rest here.