{"id":15031,"date":"2011-04-04T23:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2011-04-04T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T04:30:01","slug":"serving-god-with-our-minds-smpt-conference-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/serving-god-with-our-minds-smpt-conference-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving God with Our Minds: SMPT Conference This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byu.edu\/\" target=\"blank\">BYU<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology<\/a> will hold its 8th Annual Meeting on the theme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/conferences_2011.html\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Serving God with Our Minds&mdash;The Place of Philosophy, Theology, and Scholarship in a Prophetic Church.&#8221;<\/a> Featured speakers include Patrick Mason, who will soon be taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgu.edu\/pages\/6877.asp?item=5000\" target=\"blank\">Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont<\/a>, Alan Wilkins, a former Academic Vice President and currently Associate Director of the Faculty Center at BYU, and Jack Welch, Robert K. Thomas University Professor in the BYU Law School. Sessions will address themes including the role of theology in devotional life, prophets and continuing revelation, spiritual dimensions of education at BYU and elsewhere, scriptural interpretation, liberation theology, and justice in a gospel society. A session on &#8220;Art and Philosophy of Art in the Restored Church&#8221; includes reflections by artists with work in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/churchhistory\/museum\/exhibits\/current\/0,16116,4089-1-,00.html\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Seek My Face&#8221; exhibit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldschurchnews.com\/articles\/60623\/New-scriptural-art-Seek-My-Face-exhibit-opens-at-Church-History-Museum.html\" target=\"blank\">currently showing in the Church History Museum<\/a>. The conference runs Thursday-Saturday, April 7-9. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/conferences_2011.html\" target=\"blank\">conference schedule<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/ target=\"blank\">SMPT website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend at BYU, the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will hold its 8th Annual Meeting on the theme, &#8220;Serving God with Our Minds&mdash;The Place of Philosophy, Theology, and Scholarship in a Prophetic Church.&#8221; Featured speakers include Patrick Mason, who will soon be taking the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont, Alan Wilkins, a former Academic Vice President and currently Associate Director of the Faculty Center at BYU, and Jack Welch, Robert K. Thomas University Professor in the BYU Law School. Sessions will address themes including the role of theology in devotional life, prophets and continuing revelation, spiritual dimensions of education at BYU and elsewhere, scriptural interpretation, liberation theology, and justice in a gospel society. A session on &#8220;Art and Philosophy of Art in the Restored Church&#8221; includes reflections by artists with work in the &#8220;Seek My Face&#8221; exhibit currently showing in the Church History Museum. The conference runs Thursday-Saturday, April 7-9. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information, see the conference schedule on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15035,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions\/15035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}