Mormons are indeed Christians, but even studious Latter-day Saints have much to learn about the depth of their own doctrine and what it says about the Jesus they worship.
So say LDS scholars Fiona and Terryl Givens in their provocative new book, “The Christ Who Heals: How God Restored the Truth That Saves Us.”
In it, the authors urge Mormons to adopt a more benevolent view of God the Father and to see Jesus as a healer of wounds as much, if not more than, as a savior from sin.
Mormons “still think of [Christ] as our rescuer from a condition of fallenness and depravity,” Terryl Givens says in a recent Salt Lake Tribune “Mormon Land” podcast, “rather than as our enabler and tutor along the pathway toward godliness.