Mormonism and Christianity, or, Are Christians Mormon? The question, “Are Mormons Christian?” has been heard ever since 1830, and it has been pressed forward in recent years by both anti- Mormon Christians and by Mormons who are trying to convince other Christians. I would like to turn the tables on the question, and use Mormon Christianity as a frame through which to discuss what Christianity is really all about. I will explore four interrelated issues: 1) the “grace versus works” question; 2) the question, What would it mean to live as a Christian two thousand years after Jesus (which also gets into what I call “ontological Christianity,” or Christianity seen primarily as a metaphysical system); 3) the idea of the restoration of early Christianity; 4) Mormonism as a commutarian movement.

Bill Martin