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A Church to Believe In, by Peter C. Moore (Latimer Press, ph. 800-553-3645, 1994), 192pp., $9.95 paper.

"Aren't you confused by the multiplicity of churches and denominations? Didn't Jesus Christ and St. Paul call for unity? Wouldn't you like to know which church is the one, true church?"

These are undoubtedly some of the first questions that Mormon (a.k.a. Latter-day Saints) missionaries will ask when invited into your home. But, of course, you needn't encounter clean-cut, young gentlemen in white shirt-sleeves in order to confront these questions. You may have heard such challenges from the friend who is destined to become a fifth-generation elder at his family's Presbyterian church; or from the agnostic relative who is just taunting you; or from the school roommate who can't stop church shopping. Or, you may have recently posed these same questions to yourself.

Well, Peter C. Moore has something to say to the cult recruiter, the sheltered friend, the cynic, the McChurch consumer, and the faithful alike in A Church to Believe In: "Evangelical in experience, catholic in spirit, reformed in doctrine, charismatic in ministry, and liberal in ethos..." These five keynotes begin Moore's adventure for the church, which is "nothing less than the recovery of that rich tapestry of truth and life which come when the church listens to and is obedient to the fullness which God has revealed..."

Peter Moore joins a blessed glut of authors who have penned their own adventures for the church in recent years: Jim Petersen's unabashedly evangelical Church Without Walls; Edward Schillebeeckx's Catholic capstone, Church: Human Beings as the Story of God; Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon's reformed Resident Aliens; C. Peter Wagner's charismatically ...

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