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11/19/2008 - Error in Lawrence Foster Article in Vol. 28
 

Due to a typesetting error in the recently published JWHA Journal, the last fifteen words in Lawrence Foster's article "Beyond Black Muslims and Reorganized Mormons: The Transformation of Two New Religious Movements in America" were omitted. The following is the complete final paragraph of this article:

The chief problem this transition process poses, in my opinion, is that it could result in the Community of Christ "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" by failing to continue to take advantage of its traditional openness to exploring new insights into further truth that the larger Protestant denominations may have overlooked. I don’t know what a revitalized Community of Christ paradigm and sense of mission might ultimately involve, but I do sincerely hope that the Community of Christ may eventually be able to develop a compelling and truly distinctive sense of its own identity and mission, rather than simply allow itself to gradually fade away as yet another small, struggling, mainstream Protestant denomination in decline.


 

 
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