{"id":26579,"date":"2013-05-25T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=26579"},"modified":"2013-05-25T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T17:00:47","slug":"opposition-in-all-things-perspectives-on-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/opposition-in-all-things-perspectives-on-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"“Opposition in All Things: Perspectives on the Fall”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Mormon Theology Seminar<\/a>\u00a0will host a two-day conference,\u00a0“Opposition in All Things: Mormon Perspectives on the Fall,”\u00a0at Utah Valley University on June 7-8, 2013.<\/p>\n

The conference is the culmination of three months of intensive work of two concurrent seminars, one focusing on\u00a0Genesis 2-3<\/a>\u00a0and the other on\u00a02 Nephi 2<\/a>. Each seminar spent months collaboratively reading their respective texts on a verse by verse, word by word basis and each included participants from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.<\/p>\n

Past volumes of the Seminar’s conference proceedings have been published with\u00a0Salt Press<\/a>\u00a0and, in light of Salt’s recent merger, future collections will pursue publication with the\u00a0Neal A. Maxwell Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though past seminars have all been conducted online, plans are also being considered to offer some future seminars in a live, two-week, onsite format.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Friday, June 7<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
(Library Auditorium, Utah Valley University)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
“Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3”<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
9:30 – 10:20<\/span><\/div>\n
Julie Smith, “Paradoxes in Paradise”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Deidre Green<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
10:30 – 11:20<\/span><\/div>\n
Ben Spackman, “Adam, Where Art Thou? Onomastics, Etymology, and Translation in Genesis 2-3”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Rico Martinez<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
11:30 – 12:20<\/span><\/div>\n
Rosalynde Welch, “Creation, Localism, and Appetite in the Garden World of Wendell Berry”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Candice Wendt<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
12:30 – 2:30<\/span><\/div>\n
Lunch<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
2:30 – 3:20<\/span><\/div>\n
James Faulconer, “Chaos and Order, Order and Chaos: The Creation Story as the Story of Human Community”
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\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Julie Smith<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
3:30 – 4:20<\/span><\/div>\n
Candice Wendt, “Environmental Education in Zion”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Jenny Webb<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
4:30 – 5:20<\/span><\/div>\n
Adam Miller, “Dirt, Dung, and Digestion”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Joseph Spencer<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Saturday, June 8<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
(Library Auditorium, Utah Valley University)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
“Lehi’s Discourse: Reading 2 Nephi 2”<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
9:30 – 10:20<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rico Martinez, “Reading Genesis with Lehi: Lehi as Exegete”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by John Hilton III<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
10:30 – 11:20<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jenny Webb, “‘He Is the Firstfruits unto God’: Toward a Theology of Flesh”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Adam Miller<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
11:30 – 12:20<\/span><\/div>\n
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Joseph Spencer, “Lehi’s Unfinished Thought: On 2 Nephi 2:10b”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Rosalynde Welch<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
12:30 – 2:30<\/span><\/div>\n
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Lunch<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
2:30 – 3:20<\/span><\/div>\n
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Deidre Green, “Sacrifice, Doubt, and Divinity: Using Doubt to Become Divine”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by James Faulconer<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
3:30 – 4:20<\/span><\/div>\n
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John Hilton III, “Fathers and Sons: Textual Connections in 2 Nephi 2 and Alma 42”<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Response by Robert Couch<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The Mormon Theology Seminar is an independent, scholarly forum committed to organizing short-term,\u00a0seminar-style collaborations that consider specific questions about Mormon theology through close readings of foundational Mormon texts. As a part of this work, the Seminar also publicly archives the findings of these study groups.The Seminar\u2019s primary aim is to create a common space where theological work can be undertaken in a way that is both concentrated and collaborative.In this way, the Seminar means\u00a0to avoid two difficulties that traditionally plague such scholarly work. On the one hand, focused theological work is typically an individual affair and the spaces that customarily support this work tend to reinforce isolation and idiosyncrasy. For instance, the writing of conference papers and journal articles tends to be relatively private work that only briefly flares in the common\u00a0space of a presentation or publication. On the other hand, common spaces typically conducive to spirited discussion and collaboration generally tend to preclude focused and sustained concentration. Exchanges on blogs and discussion lists, for example, while often invigorating and instructive, consistently lack focus and\u00a0resolution. In short, collaboration tends\u00a0to diffuse concentration, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

In order to address\u00a0the apparent difficulty of coupling collaboration and concentration, the Seminar organizes small, temporary study groups (seminars) designed to facilitate collaborative engagement in focused readings of primary\u00a0Mormon texts.<\/p>\n

These seminars are organized along the following lines:<\/p>\n

(1) Each seminar consists of 4-6 people, preferably including both men and women, and preferably with a variety of backgrounds.<\/p>\n

(2) Each seminar collaborates for a period of only 3-4 months.<\/p>\n

(3) Each seminar is organized around the reading of a small\u00a0selection from a Mormon text (typically less than\u00a020 pages). An agreed upon reading schedule paces the work over the span of several months.<\/p>\n

(4) Prior to the work of reading itself, seminar participants formulate a small,\u00a0provisional\u00a0set (2\u20134) of key questions in order to bring focus to\u00a0possible\u00a0avenues for\u00a0future discussion and aid them in formulating concise summaries of their findings.\u00a0These questions should be freely modified, extended, or replaced as the seminar proceeds.<\/p>\n

(5) Members of the seminar take turns leading weekly discussions that address that week’s reading assignment in view of the seminar’s key questions. In light of the discussion, possible answers are then tentatively framed in the discussion leader\u2019s summary of that week\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

(6) At the conclusion of the seminar, the participants co-author a concise report (typically less than 5000 words) that summarizes\u00a0their provisional findings. In addition to the joint report, participants may also compose individual papers prompted by their work in the seminar.<\/p>\n

(7) Reports and individual papers are then indexed for easy reference and publicly archived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this way, the Seminar proposes to combine the strength of collaborative work with the concentration of focused effort. Moreover, it aims to archive and summarize the reported work of completed seminars in a way that will promote a sense of cumulative progress in the field of Mormon theology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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