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Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of "heresy" as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted religious movements. To these ends, the book argues for a sociologically-informed redefinition of heresy as religiously-motivated opposition and applies the resulting concept to the historical cases of second-century Christians and nineteenth-century Mormons. Ultimately, Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy is a careful application of the comparative method to two new religious movements, highlighting the social processes at work in their early doctrinal developments.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Approaching Answers
Outline
Part One
Heresy as Opposition: Debates and DefinitionsAvailable Definitions
Relativity and Heresy
The Ideal Type
Toward a Sociology of Heresy
Heresy and Soteriology: The Process of Interaction
The Heretical Process: Its Assumptions and PredictionsThe Sociology of Knowledge
Hans Mol's Adaptation/Identity Dialectic
When Position becomes Confession
From Opposition to Salvation
Part Two
Locating Heresy: The Threefold AttackPagans, Jews, Gnostics, and Rome: The Irenaean Antecedent
Ministers, Mobs, Apostates, and "Gentile" (Protestant) America: The Early Mormon Example
Ferment and Fecundity
Resolving Heresy: Soteriological SchemasToward 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
