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Latter Day Saint Beliefs: A Comparison between the RLDS Church and LDS Church

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Steven Shields’ concise, easy-to-read, and remarkably non-polemical book compares and contrasts RLDS and LDS doctrines on a number of major issues like the nature of God, revelation, salvation, and so forth.
As a non-Mormon, I especially recommend this book to other non-Mormons. It illustrates, for example, the diversity of Mormon beliefs, which Utah-centered LDS missionaries at your door will never mention. It’s also useful if you want to compare and contrast your own beliefs to the beliefs of both RLDS and LDS Mormons.

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The author, Steven Shields, is a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS, headquartered in Missouri) who used to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS, headquartered in Utah).
When Joseph Smith Jr. died, his followers could not agree among themselves who ought to succeed him, so many “Mormon” denominations were founded (there are now somewhere between 200 and 1000 different “Mormon” denominations). The RLDS believed that Joseph Smith III should succeed his father, the LDS followed Brigham Young.