Adam J. Powell

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

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Produktbeschreibung

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy analyzes the relationship between experiences of religious persecution and the development of complex belief systems entailing deification. By examining the histories of early Christians and early Mormons, the study not only highli...

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Produktdetails

• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies Series
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781611478716
• ISBN-10: 1611478715
• Artikelnr.: 43170906

Autorenporträt

Adam Powell is assistant professor of religious studies and director of the Master of Arts in Religious Studies at Lenoir-Rhyne University's Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville, NC.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Approaching Answers Outline Part One 1.Heresy
as Opposition: Debates and Definitions Available Definitions Relativity and
Heresy The Ideal Type Toward a Sociology of Heresy Heresy and Soteriology:
The Process of Interaction 2.The Heretical Process: Its Assumptions and
Predictions The Sociology of Knowledge Hans Mol's Adaptation/Identity
Dialectic When Position becomes Confession From Opposition to Salvation
Part Two 3.Locating Heresy: The Threefold Attack Pagans, Jews, Gnostics,
and Rome: The Irenaean Antecedent Ministers, Mobs, Apostates, and "Gentile"
(Protestant) America: The Early Mormon Example Ferment and Fecundity
4.Resolving Heresy: Soteriological Schemas Toward Resolution Order and
Salvation Group and Self in the Soteriological Schema God, Humanity,
Resolution, and Adaptation Conclusion: Salvation and Success God-making
Heresy Finale Bibliography Index About the Author