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the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844
By John L. Brooke
"The refiner's fire" was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 - Cambridge, it has 421 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: The refiner's fire
- Author: John L. Brooke
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 421
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 1994
- Publish Location: Cambridge
“The refiner's fire” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ History - History of doctrines - Mormon Church - Mormon cosmology - Occultism - Religious aspects of Occultism - Histoire des doctrines - Christianisme et occultisme - Geschichte 1644-1844 - Mormonen - Aspect religieux - Ésotérisme - Église mormone - Mormonismo (origem) - Cosmologie mornone - Mórmons (história) - Histoire - Cosmologie - Mormons - Okkultismus - Kosmologie - Cosmologie mormone - Mormon church, history - Mormon church, doctrines - Cosmology, history - Religious aspects
- Time: 19th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xix, 421 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL1426299M - OL3948036W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 28928183
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 93037366
- ISBN-10: 0521345456
- All ISBNs: 0521345456
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Mormon religious belief has long been a mystery to outsiders, either dismissed as anomalous to the American religious tradition or extolled as the most genuine creation of the American religious imagination. This study presents the first extended analysis of Mormon theology to have been written against the backdrop of religion and popular culture in the early modern North Atlantic world, a context that permits the most coherent analysis of Mormon origins. John Brooke argues that Mormon doctrines of the mutuality of spirit and matter, of celestial marriage (in the nineteenth century, polygamous marriage), and of human deification can be understood only in light of the connections between the occult and the sectarian ideal of restoration forged among early modern religious radicals. Hermeticism, of which alchemy was the experimental practice, posited that humanity could regain the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise; so too the prophet Joseph Smith promised the Mormon faithful that they would become "gods" through the restoration of ancient mysteries. Exploring the opposing forces of hermetic purity and danger - manifested in sectarian religion, magic, witchcraft beliefs, alchemy, Freemasonry, counterfeiting, and state formation - in the making of the Mormon church, the book closes with an overview of the transformation of Mormonism from the 1860s to the present.
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