Mormon scholars are mourning the sudden death of a Catholic theologian who took seriously LDS beliefs about God, grappled with them, explored them from every angle, and, ultimately, found much to admire.
"No contemporary non-LDS theologian engaged with Mormon theology with more care and rigor than Stephen H. Webb," says Blair Hodges of Brigham Young University's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. "This isn't an exaggeration. He was unique in the Mormon/Christian interfaith discussions because he spoke from within the Catholic tradition rather than Protestantism."
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