A couple of weeks ago InterVarsity Press, one of my all-time favorite publishing houses, sent me a review sampler for its new release What Mormons Believe by evangelical writer Robert M. Bowman (no relation to Matthew Bowman, the historian who wrote this year’s outstanding Random House history The Mormon People).
Because this was an IVP book, I picked it up with great interest. IVP is known for doing thoughtful, well-researched books on a variety of topics, and striving for balanced evangelical scholarship. In the late 1990s, the press broke new ground with the discussion-based book How Wide the Divide?, in which an evangelical scholar and a Mormon scholar collaborated together to outline their theological areas of difference and common ground.
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