McDowell’s approach, detailed in his various handbooks and PDF resources circulating in theological seminaries, breaks the mold of the alarmist preacher. He approaches groups like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Christian Science, and Unitarianism not as sociological oddities, but as rival worldviews that must be tested against the grid of historical and logical truth.
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