Refiner’s Fire and the Yates Thesis: Hermeticism, Esotericism, and the History of Christianity
STEPHEN J. FLEMING {stephenjfleming@yahoo.com} recently finished his Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation was titled “The Fulness of the Gospel: Christian Platonism and the Origins of Mormonism.” He has published in Church History, Religion and American Culture, and Max Weber Studies. He is currently working on finishing a book on early Mormonism in the Philadelphia area. EGIL ASPREM {easprem@gmail.com} received his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on Western esotericism, history of science, and the cognitive science of religion. He is the author of The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939 (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture (Albany: State University of New York, 2012). ANN TAVES {taves@religion.ucsb.edu} is professor of religious studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research focuses primarily on religious experience in the history of Christianity and method and theory in the study of religion. She is currently working on a book titled Revelatory Events: Unusual Experiences in the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths, in which Mormonism figures as one of three case studies.
Stephen J. Fleming, Egil Asprem, Ann Taves; Refiner’s Fire and the Yates Thesis: Hermeticism, Esotericism, and the History of Christianity. Journal of Mormon History 1 October 2015; 41 (4): 198–209. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.41.4.198
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