Mormon Mirage : A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today

by Latayne C. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780310291534
• ISBN10: 0310291534
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

As A Gifted Young Student At Brigham Young University, Latayne Colvett Scott once was an ardent proponent of Mormonism. But a meticulous examination of Latter-day Saint (LDS) doctrines and practices convinced her that she and countless others had believed a lie. In the first edition of The Mormon Mirage, Scott shared her remarkable journey out of Mormonism as she uncovered shocking inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and contradictions in the faith she had loved and lived.

Author Biography

Latayne C. Scott was a faithful and happy Mormon for ten years, attending Brigham Young University on a writing scholarship and working as a staff member for two of BYU's weekly magazines. She is the author of thirteen published books, including The Mormon Mirage, Why We Left Mormonism, and After Mormonism, What? She has also published articles and poems in secular magazines and in major Christian magazines, and is the recipient of Pepperdine University's "Distinguished Christian Service Award" for her writing. Latayne is a representational thinker and a full-time writer, living in New Mexico with her husband of thirty-five years, and has two married children. Her Web sites are www.latayne.com and www.representationalresources.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
From Mirage to Reality	p. 11
A Gentle Apostasy	p. 17
The Joseph Smith Story	p. 28
The Book of Mormon: "The Most Correct of Any Book"?	p. 61
One Bible, Two Books of Commandments, and Unlimited Wives	p. 98
The Perils of the Pearl	p. 124
The Precarious Summit of Continuing Revelation	p. 148
The Mormon Pantheon	p. 167
Salvation and Exaltation	p. 195
Issues and Challenges Facing Mormonism in the Twenty-First Century-Part One	p. 231
Issues and Challenges Facing Mormonism in the Twenty-First Century-Part Two	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 269
Addendum-Evangelizing Mormons in the Twenty-First Century	p. 297
For Further Reading	p. 301
Notes	p. 305
Subject Index	p. 347
Mormon Scripture Index	p. 357
Scripture Index	p. 361
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