{"id":38745,"date":"2019-03-06T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=38745"},"modified":"2019-03-06T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:21:18","slug":"smpt-at-u-of-u-next-week-more-nations-than-one-theology-culture-and-pluralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/smpt-at-u-of-u-next-week-more-nations-than-one-theology-culture-and-pluralism\/","title":{"rendered":"SMPT at U of U next week: &#8220;More Nations Than One: Theology, Culture, and Pluralism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will hold a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/conferences_2019.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conference at the University of Utah, March 14-16<\/a>, on the theme, &#8220;More Nations Than One: Theology, Culture, and Pluralism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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>Next week&#8217;s conference includes a number of different presentations on this theme, as well as several on other aspects of LDS belief such as repentance, baptism, and personal revelation. Here is a sampling of speakers and topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane Hafen, \u201cNor Any Manner of -Ites: Indigeneity and the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bob Millet, \u201cGod Grants unto All Nations\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jim McLachlan, \u201cDeep Religious Pluralism:  Bergson, Chamberlin, and Openness to the Religious Other\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sam Brown, \u201cThe Atonement of Love\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Noel Reynolds, \u201cThe Language of Repentance in the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Brittney Hartley, \u201cA Bible, We Have Got A Bible: Gathering Zion Through Open Scripture\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Keith Lane, \u201cThe Divine Beauty and Persuasion of the Latter-day Saints\u201d<\/li>\n<li>James Holt, \u201cTowards a Latter-day Saint Theology of Religions\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference starts Thursday at 7:30pm and continues through about 5pm Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>For the full schedule and other information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpt.org\/conferences_2019.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conference page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will hold a conference at the University of Utah, March 14-16, on the theme, &#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)? Next week&#8217;s conference includes a number of different presentations on this theme, as well as several on other aspects of LDS belief such as repentance, baptism, and personal revelation. Here is a sampling of speakers and topics: Jane Hafen, \u201cNor Any Manner of -Ites: Indigeneity and the Book of Mormon\u201d Bob Millet, \u201cGod Grants unto All Nations\u201d Jim McLachlan, \u201cDeep Religious Pluralism: Bergson, Chamberlin, and Openness to the Religious Other\u201d Sam Brown, \u201cThe Atonement of Love\u201d Noel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38745","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\/38745","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=38745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38753,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions\/38753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}