2005 SMPT Annual Meeting
Location: Utah State University
Logan, Utah
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Friday March 11th
Eccles Conference Center 201
9:45 am Welcome 10 am "Sovereignty, Agency, and the Atonement"
Jennifer Lane, Brigham Young University--Hawaii11 am "The Influence of Alexander Campbell and Charles Finney on the Theological Rhetoric
of Sidney Rigdon and the Lectures on Faith"
Noel Reynolds, Brigham Young University12 pm LUNCH available on campus 1 pm "The Social Dimension of Religious Experience: A Latter-day Saint Application"
Brian Birch, Utah Valley State College2 pm "Proving Contraries in a Restored Epistemology: A Communicative Pluralist Answer
to Religious Diversity"
Dennis Potter, Utah Valley State College3 pm BREAK 3:30 pm "Mormonism, Movies and Romantic Eschatology"
Jim McLachlan, Western Carolina University4:30 pm Business Meeting
(For Society members)5 pm DINNER BREAK 7 pm Keynote Address: "Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World"
David L. Paulsen, Brigham Young University
Taggart Student Center Auditorium
Saturday, March 12th
Eccles Conference Center 201
9 am "LDS Theologies of Conscience"
Rosalynde Frandsen Welch10 am "Moral Theology and Mormonism"
Richard Sherlock, Utah State University11 am "Two Models of Mortality"
Benjamin Huff, University of Notre Dame12-1 pm LUNCH available on campus 1 pm "Hope"
James Faulconer, Brigham Young University2 pm "Toward a Subtractive Mormon Theology"
Adam Miller, Villanova University3 pm BREAK 3:30 pm "Trinity, Logic and Scripture"
Blake Ostler4:30 pm Board Meeting