{"product_id":"the-refiners-fire-the-making-of-mormon-cosmology-1644-1844-hardback-9780521345453","title":"The Refiner's Fire; The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (Hardback) 9780521345453","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Refiner's Fire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn L. Brooke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521345453, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 October 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e444 pages, 14 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The Refiner's Fire is an important and daring work for which Brooke has received the Bancroft Prize in American history....Combining intellectual and demographic history with rare skill, Brooke sheds great light on transatlantic subcultures that have not been labeled \"occult\" (read \"hidden\") for nothing.\"    Religious Studies Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of maps\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Prepared People: 1. Dreams of the primal Adam\u003cbr\u003e 2. The true spiritual seed\u003cbr\u003e 3. Something of our ancestors\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger: 4. A Urim spiritual\u003cbr\u003e 5. Alchymical experiments\u003cbr\u003e 6. I was born in Sharon\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Mormon Dispensation: 7. Secret combinations and slippery treasures in the land of Zarahemla\u003cbr\u003e 8. The mysteries defined\u003cbr\u003e 9. Temples, wives, bogus-making and war\u003cbr\u003e 10. The keys to the kingdom\u003cbr\u003e 11. A tangle of strings and the kingdom of God\u003cbr\u003e 12. Let mysteries alone\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: the sectarian and hermetic circumstances of Mormon origins in Vermont and New York\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations used in notes\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913162613016,"sku":"9780521345453","price":80.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521345453i_4909ebfe-6a60-4c67-b2c5-795f2f069c55.jpg?v=1691375502","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-refiners-fire-the-making-of-mormon-cosmology-1644-1844-hardback-9780521345453","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}