2008 Conferences

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SMPT Annual Meeting Sponsored Session at AAR Annual Meeting

2008 SMPT Annual Meeting

Location:

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

Thursday, March 27th

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 pm	Related event: Tanner-McMurrin Lecture, at Westminster College*    “God as Present and God as Absent”      Stephen Davis

Friday, March 28th

9 am OSH 104	Plenary Session “Lehi’s Theorem and Schelling’s Fundamental Law of Opposites”     Jad Hatem
10 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 1100	Presidential Address     James Faulconer, President of the Society
2:25 pm LNCO 1100	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 1110	“Opposing Lehi’s Theodicy”     Dennis Potter
10 am LNCO 1110	“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	“Searching for an Adequate Theodicy: Mormon and Process Theologies”     David Paulsen
5 pm LNCO 1110	Business Meeting     (SMPT Members)

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

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(SMPT Sponsored Session)

Location:

Chicago, Illinois (locations of individual sessions listed below)

Sunday, November 2nd

7:00-8:30pm Palmer House Hilton, Salon 8 & 9

"Restoration, Revelation, and Doctrinal Authority"   Moderator/Panelist      James McLachlan, Western Carolina University   Panelists      Brian Birch, Utah Valley University      Donald Musser, Stetson University      Richard Sherlock, Utah State University