The refiner's fire : the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844 / / John L. Brooke

• Autore: Brooke John L.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 230/.93/09
• Soggetto topico: Latter Day Saint cosmology - History of doctrines - 19th century; Occultism - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches - History of doctrines - 19th century; Latter Day Saint churches - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Reprint of 1994 edition.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-404) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I.A prepared people. Dreams of the primal Adam -- The true spiritual seed -- Something of our ancestors -- Part II. Hermetic purity and hermetic danger. A Urim spiritual -- Alchymical experiments -- I was born in Sharon -- Part III. The Mormon dispensation. Secret combinations and slippery treasures in the land of Zarahemla -- The mysteries defined -- Temples, wives, bogus-making, and war -- The keys to the kingdom -- A tangle of strings and the kingdom of God -- Let mysteries alone.
• Sommario/riassunto: This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with magical ideas about recovering the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise (ideas known as the hermetic philosophy) that occurred during the Reformation and the English Revolution. The book is organised around the two problems of demonstrating the survival of these ideas into the nineteenth century and of how they were manifested in Mormon doctrine. A final chapter outlines how Mormonism gradually has moved toward traditional Protestant Christianity since the 1850s. Besides religion, this book deals with magic, witchcraft, alchemy, Freemasonry, counterfeiting, and state-formation.
• Titolo autorizzato: The refiner's fire
• ISBN: 0-511-09731-X; 0-511-58356-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247969803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.