Category Books

Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 »

Authors: John L. Brooke
ISBN-13: 9780521345453, ISBN-10: 0521345456
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion.

	List of Illustrations
	List of Maps
	Preface
Pt. I	A Prepared People
1	Dreams of the Primal Adam	3
2	The True Spiritual Seed	30
3	Something of Our Ancestors	59
Pt. II	Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger
4	A Urim Spiritual	91
5	Alchymical Experiments	105
6	I Was Born in Sharon	129
Pt. III	The Mormon Dispensation
7	Secret Combinations and Slippery Treasures in the Land of Zarahemla	149
8	The Mysteries Defined	184
9	Temples, Wives, Bogus-Making, and War	209
10	The Keys to the Kingdom	235
11	A Tangle of Strings and the Kingdom of God	262
12	Let Mysteries Alone	278
	App.: The Sectarian and Hermetic Circumstances of Mormon Origins in Vermont and New York	306
	Abbreviations Used in Notes	311
	Notes	314
	Index	405