2007 Conferences

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SMPT Annual Meeting Sponsored Sessions at AAR Annual Meeting

2007 SMPT Annual Meeting

Location:

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (locations of individual sessions listed below)

Thursday, March 22nd

11:00 am-12:00 noon B032 Joseph F. Smith Building	"Apocalyptic Theology"     James E. Faulconer (Brigham Young University)
12:45-1:00 pm 254 Clyde Building	Welcome and opening remarks     James E. Faulconer, President of the Society
1:00-2:30 pm 254 Clyde Building	"Free Agency"     Daniel Graham (Brigham Young University) "Space in Section 88 of the Doctrine and Covenants"     David Grandy (Brigham Young University)
2:45-4:15 pm 125 Clyde Building	"A Confessionalist Approach to Religious Diversity:    Implications for Latter-day Saint Self-Understanding"     Brian Birch (Utah Valley State College) "Why Can't Calvinists and Mormons Understand Each Other? A Look at the Role of Assumptions in Interfaith Dialogue and Debate"     Mark Hausam (Christ Presbyterian Church)
4:30-6:00 pm 3215 Wilkinson Student Center	"Anger and Justice in Tension: Mormon Approaches"     Mauro Properzi (Durham University) "Can Joseph Smith Save Wittgenstein?"     Dennis Potter (Utah Valley State College)

Friday, March 23rd

9:30-11:00 am C255 Eyring Science Center	"Love, Truth, and the Meaning of Marriage"     Adam Miller (Collin College) "Joseph Smith and Heidegger: Revealing God Embodied in Modernity"     Cristina Billikopf (Brigham Young University)
11:15 am-12:45 pm C255 Eyring Science Center	"The Hope for Universal Salvation"     Sheila Taylor (Graduate Theological Union) "Exaltation, Lossky's Dilemma and Gods Who Can Fall:   A Problem for Mormon Theodicies"     Carl Mosser (Eastern University)
2:15-3:45 pm C255 Eyring Science Center	"Jurisprudence and the Problem of Church Doctrine"     Nathan Oman (William & Mary School of Law) "Joseph Smith and the Trinity: An Analysis and Defense of the Social Model of the Godhead"     David Paulsen (Brigham Young University) &     Brett McDonald (UCLA School of Law)
Keynote Address
4:00-5:30 pm B032 Joseph F. Smith Building	"Jesus, Plan, and Trinity"     Douglas Davies (Durham University)

Saturday, March 24th

10:00-11:30 am B032 Joseph F. Smith Building	"How Becoming an Anglo-Catholic Has Changed My Mind About the LDS Church"     Paul Owen (Montreat College) "Theology and Friendship"     Jennifer Lane (Brigham Young University--Hawaii)
11:45 am-1:15 pm B032 Joseph F. Smith Building	"Contemporary Physical Cosmology and LDS Theology"     Hollis Johnson (Indiana University) "The Ungrund, Intelligence(s), and God(s): Impersonal and Personal Ultimates in Mormonism and Heterodox Christianity"     James McLachlan (Western Carolina University)
1:30 pm	Business Meeting

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(SMPT Sponsored Sessions)

Location:

San Diego, California (locations of individual sessions listed below)

Sunday, November 18th

7:00-8:30pm Manchester Grand Hyatt Edward D	"Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies"   Moderator/Panelist      James McLachlan, Western Carolina University   Panelists      Donald Musser, Stetson University      David Paulsen, Brigham Young University      Joseph Price, Whittier College      Benjamin Huff, Randolf-Macon College
9:00-11:00PM Manchester Grand Hyatt Randle D	"When Souls had Wings: The intellectual work done by pre-existence"      Terryl Givens, University of Richmond