Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-871-6 (ISBN)
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.
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
Reihe/Serie | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies Series |
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Verlagsort | Cranbury |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 239 mm |
Gewicht | 517 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61147-871-5 / 1611478715 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61147-871-6 / 9781611478716 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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