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Joseph Smith’s Translation : The Words and Worlds of Mormonism
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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"In Joseph Smith's Translation, Samuel Morris Borwn argues that these translations express the mystical power of language and scripture to interconnect people across barriers of space and time, especially in the developing Mormon temple liturgy. He shows that Smith was devoted to an ancient metaphysics-- especially the principle of correspondence, the concept of 'as above, so below'-- that provided an infrastructure bridging the human and the divine as well as for his textual interpretive projects. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at the productive edge of the transitions associated with shifts toward 'secular modernity.' This transition into modern worldviews intensified, complexly, in nineteenth-century America. The evolving legacies of Reformation and Enlightenment were the sea in which early mormons swam, says Brown. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of the Mormon critique of American culture in transition. This complex critique continues to resonate and illuminate to the present day." [Book Abstract]
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