Monday, March 10, 2008

Society for Mormon Philosophy & Theology Conference

The 2008 SMPT Annual Meeting will be held March 27-29 at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Location: Languages and Communications Building (LNCO) and Orson Spencer Hall (OSH),
University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Thursday, March 27nd

3-5 pm
LNCO 1110
William Chamberlin Session
   "Rethinking Omniscience"
     Adam Kunz, Jeremiah Edwards, and Kenneth Merrill
   "Redeemers and the Redeemed"
     Stanley Thayne
   "Toward a Latter-day Saint Theology of Possibilities"
     Dennis Wendt
   Comments by Blake Ostler

7:30 pm
Related event:
Tanner-McMurrin Lecture, at Westminster College*
  "God as Hidden and God as Revealed"
     Stephen Davis

Friday, March 28th

9 am
OSH 104
"Searching for an Adequate Theodicy: Mormon and Process Theologies"
    David Paulsen
105 am
LNCO 1100
"A Broken Mirror Image: Original Sin in LDS Theology"
    Sheila Taylor
11 am
LNCO 1100
Author Meets Critics:
   Blake Ostler's Exploring Mormon Thought, vol. 2

2 pm
LNCO
Presidential Address
    James Faulconer, President of the Society
2:25 pm
LNCO
Panel: "Authority and Church Doctrine"

4 pm
LNCO 1100
"Rethinking Atheology"
    Brian Birch

7:30 pm
LNCO 1110
Plenary Session
"Philosophical Theology for Mormons: Suggestions from an Outsider"
    Stephen Davis

Saturday, March 29th

9 am
LNCO
"Opposing Lehi's Theodicy"
    Dennis Potter
10 am
LNCO
"Shall We Dance"
    Pat Debenham
11 am
LNCO 1110
Author Meets Critics:
   Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies

2 pm
LNCO 1110
"The Mormon Credo"
    Dan Graham
3 pm
LNCO 1110
"Conscience and the Light of Christ"
    Richard Sherlock and Grayson Weeks

4 pm
LNCO 1110
Concluding Plenary Session
"Lehi's Theorem and Schelling's Fundamental Law of Opposites"
    Jad Hatem
5:20 pm
LNCO 1110
Business Meeting
    (SMPT Members)


   *sponsored by Westminster College and the Tanner-McMurrin Lectureship,independently of this conference.

For more information, contact SMPT Secretary Benjamin Huff at benjaminhuff@rmc.edu.

Conference Poster (PDF, 932 KB)

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