Mormon Theology Seminar Conference: June 7-8, 2013

The Mormon Theology Seminar is hosting a conference entitled “Opposition in All Things: Mormon Perspectives on the Fall” at Utah Valley University.

Friday, June 7 (Library Auditorium, Utah Valley University)

“Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3″

9:30 – 10:20

Julie Smith, “Paradoxes in Paradise”

Response by Deidre Green

10:30 – 11:20

Ben Spackman, “Adam, Where Art Thou? Onomastics, Etymology, and Translation in Genesis 2-3″

Response by Rico Martinez

11:30 – 12:20

Rosalynde Welch, “Creation, Localism, and Appetite in the Garden World of Wendell Berry”

Response by Candice Wendt

12:30 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 3:20

James Faulconer, “Chaos and Order, Order and Chaos: The Creation Story as the Story of Human Community”

Response by Julie Smith

3:30 – 4:20

Candice Wendt, “Environmental Education in Zion”

Response by Jenny Webb

4:30 – 5:20

Adam Miller, “Dirt, Dung, and Digestion”

Response by Joseph Spencer

Saturday, June 8

(Library Auditorium, Utah Valley University)

“Lehi’s Discourse: Reading 2 Nephi 2″

9:30 – 10:20

Rico Martinez, “Reading Genesis with Lehi: Lehi as Exegete”

Response by John Hilton III

10:30 – 11:20

Jenny Webb, “‘He Is the Firstfruits unto God’: Toward a Theology of Flesh”

Response by Adam Miller

11:30 – 12:20

Joseph Spencer, “Lehi’s Unfinished Thought: On 2 Nephi 2:10b”

Response by Rosalynde Welch

12:30 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 3:20

Deidre Green, “Sacrifice, Doubt, and Divinity: Using Doubt to Become Divine”

Response by James Faulconer

3:30 – 4:20

John Hilton III, “Fathers and Sons: Textual Connections in 2 Nephi 2 and Alma 42″

Response by Robert Couch

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