In a recent work attempting (lamely) to critique Latter-day Saint
theology, Protestant apologist Travis S. Kerns (correctly) notes the importance
of Christology:
Former LDS president
Gordon B. Hinckley perhaps said it best when he wrote, “Ours ought to be a
ceaseless quest for truth.” That ceaseless quest cannot end within the context
of Latter-day Saint theology. The quest can only end when Latter-day Saints
find the Christ of historic, orthodox Christianity. (Travis S. Kerns, The Saints of Zion: An Introduction to
Mormon Theology [Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Academic, 2018], 23)
. . . Christians show
ultimate interest in a person’s Christology because one’s Christology has
eternal implications. (Ibid., 45)
Of those
disagreements, however, the disagreement over the nature of the central figure
of the Christian faith is the most significant. Both Latter-day Saints and
traditional Christians claim to follow Jesus. Both claim Jesus as their own.
One has “Jesus Christ” in its church title. The other calls itself “the
Christian church.” But in the end, who is this Jesus? One’s answer to this
question has eternal ramifications. (Ibid, 55)
Unfortunately for Kerns, it is Latter-day Saint, not (creedal/Latin)
Trinitarian Christology which is biblical. See, for e.g.:
