The annual meeting of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will take place this weekend (October 8-10) at Brigham Young University in Provo. The conference is free and open to the public. I’ve included the program below. See here for more info.
Thursday, October 8th
| 1:30 pm B192 |
Welcome, Opening Plenary Session “A Rhetorical Analysis of Nephi’s Writings and its Theological Implications” Noel Reynolds, Brigham Young University, Emeritus |
| 3 pm B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “Embodiment—Moving Beyond the Formal Shape of Simple ‘Protoplasm’” Steven Peck, Brigham Young University |
| 4082 | “Finitism and the Atonement in Mormon Thought” Jeremy Talmage, University of Utah |
| 4 pm B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “Evolution and Mormon Theology: An Interview with Steven Peck” Steven Peck, Brigham Young University Blake Ostler, Attorney and author |
| 4082 | “A Theology of Eventual Exclusivity: Mormonism’s Contribution to the Salvational Conundrum” Kajsa Berlin-Kaufusi, Brigham Young University Salt Lake Center |
| 7:30 pm B192 |
Plenary Session “Are Christians Mormon?” David L. Paulsen, Brigham Young University, Emeritus |
Friday, October 9th
| 9:00 am B192 |
Plenary Session “Socrates’ Mission” Dan Graham, Brigham Young University |
| 10 am B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom” Nate Rockwood, Virginia Tech |
| 220 BRMB* |
“’As Though, As Though Not’: Time, Being, and Negation” Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young University |
| 11 am B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “Why Ritual Makes Sense ” Dan Wotherspoon, Open Stories Foundation |
| 4082 | “Repentance and Narrative” Sheila Taylor, Independent Scholar |
| 12 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 pm B192 |
Business Meeting |
| 2 pm B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “You Are What You Teach: Learning from a Woman to Embody Christian Love” Deidre Green, St. Olaf College |
| B101 | ““What is That to Thee?”: Trust and Differences ” Jennifer Lane, Brigham Young University—Hawaii |
| B105 | “Infirm Foundations: Interpreting Mormon Scripture” Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo College |
| 3 pm B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “The Question and Witness of Truth” Keith Lane, Brigham Young University—Hawaii |
| B101 | “Purifying the Heart: Yehuda Halevi on the Role of Actions in Revealed Religion ” Allen Hansen, Utah State University |
| B105 | “’A Social Act’: Toward a Mormon Ethic of Suicide” Brad Kramer, Utah Valley University |
| 4 pm B192 |
Plenary Panel “On Terryl and Fiona Givens’ Recent Work” James McLachlan, Western Carolina University Rosalynde Welch, Independent Scholar Benjamin Huff, Randolph-Macon College |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner Break |
| 7:30 pm B192 |
Plenary Session “Nomos, Narrative, and Nephi: Jurisgenesis in the Book of Mormon” Nate Oman, William and Mary Law School |
Saturday, October 10th
| 9:00 am B192 |
Plenary Session “Is Faith a Matter of Choice? A Polite and Strenuous Debate between Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and Samuel Morris Brown” Samuel Brown, University of Utah Rosalynde Welch, Independent Scholar |
| 10 am B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “William Chamberlin’s Social Conception of God(s)” James McLachlan, Western Carolina University |
| B040 | “Understanding the LDS Church’s Abortion policy” Brandon Dabling, Brigham Young University Annie Grow, Brigham Young University Nancy Stewart, Brigham Young University |
| B042 | “Mormon Judeophilia: Theological implications for Palestine & Palestinians” Blair Van Dyke, Utah Valley University |
| 11:00 am B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “Faith and Perfect Knowledge: Parsing Alma and the Hebrew Lexicon” Ben Spackman, Independent Scholar |
| B040 | “Charity as Law, or: How to Love Again” Jacob Baker, Claremont Graduate University |
| 12pm | Lunch Break |
| 2 pm B192 |
Concurrent Sessions “According to My Faith Which Is in Me; Matthew Bowen, Brigham Young University—Hawaii |
| B040 | “The Two Great Questions” Father Tom Roberts, Communion of Anglican Churches, International |
| B042 | “So Blind is the World Today: Michael Servetus’ Restoration As Renaissance Antecedent to the Theology of Joseph Smith” Stephen B. Church, Independent Scholar Scott Haden Church, Brigham Young University |
| 3 pm B192 |
Plenary Panel “Theology As Practice” James Faulconer, Brigham Young University Adam Miller, Collin College Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young University |
| 4:40 pm B192 |
Closing Plenary Session “A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon” John Christopher Thomas, Pentecostal Theological Seminary/Bangor University |
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What a great lineup! I’m at BYU, so I’m excited I get to go to some of these.
Until I see video of the “Polite and Strenuous Debate between Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and Samuel Morris Brown” on Youtube, I won’t believe it finally, at long last, actually happened.
Wish I could make it! Any chance this will be taped?
Sorry I couldn’t make it today.
Doesn’t appear any is being taped or recorded. Some do get published later on in various venues.