Since I'm keeping the “Cult Fiction” blog just for novels, I'd like to post an occasional review of non-fiction here on the Incite Blog.
I recently had the privilege of reviewing Breaking the Mormon Code: A Critique of Mormon Scholarship Regarding Classical Christian Theology and the Book of Mormon by Matthew A. Paulson (Wingspan Press, 2006). It's available at Amazon.com or from www.wingspanpress.com
Here's the back-cover review I wrote for this excellent book:
“Paulson's book performs two very valuable services in the academic arena. First of all, he demonstrates conclusively that many LDS scholars have been less than professional in the way that they have selectively quoted– and sometimes, misquoted — early Christian Fathers and heretic writers of the last 2000 years, with the aim of making it seem that Mormonism restores the original, doctrinally pure Gospel of the first century AD. Paulson's second contributions are his helpful charts and lists. Especially useful is the comparison of classic Christian creeds with the LDS Articles of Faith–which is, as Paulson shows, indeed itself a creed.”
– Latayne C. Scott, Author, The Mormon Mirage, (Zondervan, 1979); Why We Left Mormonism, (Baker Book House, 1990) and After Mormonism, What? (Baker Book House, 1994)
