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Review title: Good for source material and that's about it
Product review: You may get your money's worth if you use this one critically. It contains plenty of original quotes from ormon sources that speak for themselves, and that's the ONLY reason this book gets two stars. But there is little in the way of depth of research beyond primary LDS material. And then there is something that would make a smaller book completely unusable: The veneer of sensationalism. Perhaps LDS ceremonies are derived from occult practices, perhaps not; but if they are, Ankerberg and Weldon could have come up with much more rational ways to say so. Two evangelical scholars, Mosser and Owen, years ago decried the inadequacies of counter-Mormon apologetics and rightly castigated these authors for producing too much of a diatribe and not enough of substance in their work; I would not recommend this book at all were it not for the wealth of original source material it references. I use it while holding my nose.
