“它们也不应该随着时间的推移而变得暗淡”:《摩门教》、《圣经》和约瑟夫·史密斯的预言性预言

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Jordan T. Watkins
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约瑟夫·史密斯早期的追随者似乎表现出双重历史意识,使神圣的过去既陌生又熟悉。为了在新教美国的圣经文化中为史密斯的新圣经作品腾出空间,其中一些人坚持认为历史差异将他们的现在与圣经的过去分开。在1832年的一封信中,Benton Pixley牧师记录了“摩门教”传教士Sidney Rigdon的一次布道,Rigdon在信中宣称,《新约》“书信不是也不是为了我们的教导,而是为了一个与我们相距甚远的另一个时代和国家的人民的教导,他们有着不同的习惯和举止。“里格登因此认为”,我们完全不一致地认为,为世界上那个年龄的人写的书信,包含了对世界上这个年龄的人的合适的指导。“里格顿的批评包括《福音书》,他形容这些福音书“如此残缺不全和修改,以至于几乎没有传达出他们应该传达的指导。”。这些关于历史差异和距离的断言,以及关于时间影响的断言,反驳了新教关于《圣经》持久相关性的假设。里格顿的推理建立在史密斯的启示性主张之上。里格登宣称“一个新的启示正在被寻求。——是意料之中的,——确实马上就会到来”(皮克斯利1832177)。这样,对新启示的信仰可以鼓励人们与圣经过去保持距离。1.
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“Neither should they be dimmed any more by time”: the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and Joseph Smith’s prophetic presentism
Joseph Smith ’ s early followers seemed to exhibit a dual historical consciousness that rendered sacred pasts both foreign and familiar. To make room for Smith ’ s new scriptural productions in the Bible culture of Protestant America, some among them insisted that historical di ff erences separated their present from the biblical pasts. In an 1832 letter, Reverend Benton Pixley recorded a sermon by “ Mormonite ” preacher Sidney Rigdon, in which Rigdon proclaimed that the New Testament “ epistles are not and were not given for our instruction, but for the instruction of a people of another age and country, far removed from ours, of di ff erent habits and manners. ” Rigdon thus con-tended “ that it is altogether inconsistent for us to take the Epistles written for that people at that age of the world, as containing suitable instruction for this people at this age of the world. ” Rigdon ’ s critique included the “ Gospels, ” which he described as “ so mutilated and altered as to convey little of the instruction which they should convey. ” These assertions about historical di ff erence and distance, and about time ’ s cor-rupting in fl uence, countered Protestant assumptions regarding the Bible ’ s enduring relevance. Rigdon ’ s reasoning rested on Smith ’ s revelatory claims. Rigdon declared that “ a new revelation is to be sought. – is to be expected, – indeed is coming forthwith ” (Pixley 1832, 177). In this way, the belief in new revelation could encourage a sense of distance from biblical pasts. 1
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期刊介绍: Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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