Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic opposition
Subtitle: atonement, evil and the Mormon vision
By: Douglas J. Davies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlingtion, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781409406495; 9781409406709; 9781409408307
Subjects: Doctrines; Mormon Church; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Mormon interpretations
Description: Explores Mormon theology in new ways from a scholarly non-Mormon perspective. Bringing Jesus and Satan into relationship with Joseph Smith, Davies shows how the Mormon "Plan of Salvation" can be equated with mainstream Christianity's doctrine of the Trinity as a driving force of the faith. Davies shows how renewed Mormon interest in theological questons of belief can be understood against the background of Mormon church organization and its growing presence on the world-stage of Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jesus in early Mormon America; title: Mormon-Israel; title: Millennial kingdom experiment; title: Plan and trinity; title: Jesus, the living and the dead; title: Joseph, Jesus and Lucifer; title: Atonement; title: Jesus, Satan and evil; title: Jesus and doctrinal kinship; title: The hope of glory; title: Jesus and the Holy Ghost; title: Jesus, opposition, otherness and sacrifice.