What happens when an Evangelical and a Mormon sit down to talk about religion? Shouting? Accusations? Misrepresentation? Not when the Evangelical is Gerald McDermott, a professor at Roanoke College, and the Mormon is Robert Millet, a professor at Brigham Young University.
Their book, "Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate" (Brazos Press, 2007) is an in-depth exploration of what Mormons and Evangelicals believe about Jesus Christ. It builds upon the pioneering conversations between Craig Blomberg and Stephen Robinson that were explored in the book "How Wide the Divide" a decade earlier.
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