For these classic religious types are just as much figures of religious excess as of theological conflict. (religion-online.org)
Theological conflict does not register in this account as the lamentable fragmentation of Christian unity but becomes, in quasi-Hegelian terms, the engine of doctrinal development. (firstthings.com)
And there is a stinging irony in proposing that there is no significant theological conflict between Christianity and a church founded on the premise that all prior forms of Christianity are apostate; Mormonism supposedly began with God telling Joseph Smith not to join any Christian congregation because «they were all wrong» and that «all their creeds were an abomination» (History 1:19). (firstthings.com)