Mormon Metaphysics & Theology

Mormonism and the Christian Tradition Conference
February 20, 2006

UVSC is having its sixth annual Mormon Studies Conference. This year's conference is on "Mormonism and the Christian Tradition." It'll be held March 30th and 31st at the Sorenson Student Center, Room 213B for Friday lectures and at the Faculty Seminar Room (LC243) across from the Institute entrance for Saturday lectures.

For more information contact Dennis Potter at potterde@uvsc.edu or (801) 863-8759.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday, March 30th

8:30 am
Process Theology and Mormonism
Brian Birch, Utah Valley State College
Dennis Potter, Utah Valley State College
Dan Wotherspoon, Editor, Sunstone Magazine

10:00
What Jesus Learned: An Evangelical Christology
James Wakefield
Salt Lake Theological Seminary

11:30
Lunch

1:00 pm
“The Inward Witness, That is the Proof, the Strongest Proof, of Christianity”:
Reflecting on Wesley’s Conversion in a Mormon Context
Ronald Huggins
Salt Lake Theological Seminary

2:15
Panel discussion: Comparisons and Contrasts
Ron Huggins, Salt Lake Theological Seminar
James Wakefield, Salt Lake Theological Seminary
Robert Millet, Brigham Young University
Michael Minch, Utah Valley State College
Brian Birch, Utah Valley State College

7:30 pm
Keynote Address
Liberal Arts Building, Room 101
To All Believers in Christ: One Mormon's Manifesto
Robert L. Millet
Professor of Religious Education, Outreach, and
Interfaith relations at BYU

Saturday, March 31st

9:00 am
Theosis in Orthodoxy and Mormonism: Vladimir Soloyov's Lectures on
Divine Humanity and Joseph Smith's King Follett Discourse
James MacLachlan
Western Carolina University

10:30
Lockean Species, Souls and LDS Metaphysics
Jan-Erik Jones
Southern Virginia University

12:00
Lunch

1:30
Authority, Community, and Catholicism
Charles Pinches
University of Scranton

3:30
Panel Discussion: Comparisons and Contrasts
Charles Pinches, University of Scranton
Jan-Erik Jones, Southern Virginia University
James McLachlan, Western Carolina University
Dennis Potter, Utah Valley State College


Comments


Posted By: Clark | February 20, 2006 03:54 PM

Just to add, I'm surprised Dennis is presenting on the process thought panel. Has his philosophical inclinations really changed that significantly? He's not been on LDS-Phil the past few years, but going Whitehead is quite the change it seems to me. He used to be much more in the center of analytic philosophy from what I recall.


Posted By: Craig Atkinson | February 20, 2006 04:29 PM

I think the only one on the panel that could be considered a process theologian would be Dan Wotherspoon. Dennis Potter and Brian Birch are probably there to point out the incompatibilities of process theology with Mormonism. Just a guess though.


Posted By: Dave | February 20, 2006 04:36 PM

Clark, do transcripts or papers of these UVSC conferences ever get posted or published?


Posted By: Clark | February 20, 2006 11:00 PM

I don't know whether any will get published. I suspect some might make it into Element in a reworked fashion.


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