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Thursday, November 27, 2014

FAIR Issues 32: A Lutheran bishop’s perspective on Mormon baptism for the dead

(blog.fairmormon.org 3-1-12)

The Mormon practice of baptism for the dead has been the subject of heated discussion of late by many who seem to not understand the practice. Suprisingly, one of the most sympathetic views of this ancient practice come from an eminent New Testament scholar named Krister Stendahl. Professor Stendahl served as chaplain and dean of Harvard Divinity School and as the Lutheran bishop of Stockholm (i.e., effectively, as the head of the state church of Sweden). Professor Daniel Peterson shares how Professor Stendahl became the author of the article on baptism for the dead in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
http://blog.fairmormon.org/2012/03/01/
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