{"id":38620,"date":"2019-01-14T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=38620"},"modified":"2019-01-24T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:30:42","slug":"smpt-submissions-due-tuesday-jan-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/smpt-submissions-due-tuesday-jan-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"SMPT Submissions Due Tuesday, Jan. 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still time to submit a proposal for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology&#8217;s 2019 meeting, March 14-16 at the University of Utah. Submissions may take the form of a full paper, or an abstract of 400-600 words. Submissions on any aspect of LDS belief will receive full consideration, but those on the conference theme are particularly encouraged. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;More Nations Than One: Theology, Culture, and Pluralism.&#8221; The Book of Mormon presents a highly inclusive vision of God&#8217;s love and his work to redeem all humankind, affirming that \u201cthe Lord esteemeth all flesh in one\u201d (1 Nephi 17:35). Yet distinctions among cultures appear to retain a meaningful role in God\u2019s work, since he teaches them \u201cof their own nation and tongue,\u201d according to what \u201che seeth fit that they should have\u201d (Alma 29:8). What role does the variety of nations and cultures among God\u2019s children play in the project of building a people \u201cof one heart and one mind\u201d (Moses 7:18)?<\/p>\n<p>For full details, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/docs\/SMPT2019_CFP.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call for Papers (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still time to submit a proposal for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology&#8217;s 2019 meeting, March 14-16 at the University of Utah. Submissions may take the form of a full paper, or an abstract of 400-600 words. Submissions on any aspect of LDS belief will receive full consideration, but those on the conference theme are particularly encouraged. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;More Nations Than One: Theology, Culture, and Pluralism.&#8221; The Book of Mormon presents a highly inclusive vision of God&#8217;s love and his work to redeem all humankind, affirming that \u201cthe Lord esteemeth all flesh in one\u201d (1 Nephi 17:35). Yet distinctions among cultures appear to retain a meaningful role in God\u2019s work, since he teaches them \u201cof their own nation and tongue,\u201d according to what \u201che seeth fit that they should have\u201d (Alma 29:8). What role does the variety of nations and cultures among God\u2019s children play in the project of building a people \u201cof one heart and one mind\u201d (Moses 7:18)? For full details, see the Call for Papers (PDF).<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620","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=38620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38622,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions\/38622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}