RT Book
T1 The refiner's fire: the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844
A1 Brooke, John L. 1953-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1994
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883480972
AB 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.
AB 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
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX8643.C68
SN 9780511583568
K1 Mormon cosmology : History of doctrines, 19th century.
K1 Occultism : Religious aspects : Mormon Church : History of doctrines, 19th century.
K1 Mormon Church : History, 19th century.
K1 Mormon Church : History : 19th century
K1 Occultism : Religious aspects : Mormon Church : History of doctrines : 19th century
K1 Mormon cosmology : History of doctrines : 19th century
K1 Mormon cosmology ; History of doctrines ; 19th century
K1 Occultism ; Religious aspects ; Mormon Church ; History of doctrines ; 19th century
K1 Mormon Church ; History ; 19th century
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511583568