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Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

By Adam J. Powell

Book information

Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781611478723, 9781611478716
LCC
BT1317.P69 2015
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
703 kB (719684 bytes)
Series
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies Ser.
Pages
277\0
Time added
2023-08-14 23:24:21
Joseph - Teachings; BIO018000; HIS037030; REL04600Smith

Description

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of "heresy" as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted religious movements. To these ends, the book argues for a sociologically-informed redefinition of heresy as religiously-motivated opposition and applies the resulting concept to the historical cases of second-century Christians and nineteenth-century Mormons. Ultimately, Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy is a careful application of the comparative method to two new religious movements, highlighting the social processes at work in their early doctrinal developments.

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