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Fleming, Stephen Joseph.

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The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism./
Author:	Fleming, Stephen Joseph.
Description:	524 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
Subject:	Religious history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3645631
ISBN:	9781321349375

The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism.
Fleming, Stephen Joseph.

The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism. - 524 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Scholars have long wondered about the source of Mormon doctrines, many of which differed significantly from the Protestantism that dominated Joseph Smith's environment. In 1994 John Brooke's Refiner's Fire proposed that Joseph Smith drew on Renaissance "hermeticism", esoteric beliefs influenced by the antique Corpus Hermericum. Mormon scholars criticized Brooke, often arguing for ancient connections inaccessible to Smith, while scholars of Western esotericism argued that the concept of hermeticism was problematic and that the esoteric ideas labeled hermetic were actually Platonic. This dissertation argues that Smith's quest to restore what he called "the fulness of the gospel", or the complete truth that was missing from contemporary churches and even the Bible itself drew from the thought of Christians influenced by Plato and is best understood as a form of Christian Platonism. Thus, for Smith, "the fulness of the gospel" included the restoration of divination, the central Christian-Platonic doctrine, as well as the rites and priesthood offices needed to achieve it.

ISBN: 9781321349375Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religious history.

The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism.
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