“Organizing the Kingdom:
Priesthood, Church Government,
and the Forms of LDS Worship”
Thursday, July 23
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM MST
Brigham Young University
Joseph F. Smith Building
Room B094
MORNING SESSION
10:00 AM
Invocation: Fiona Givens
Introduction: Terryl Givens
10:10 AM
Jeff Turner: “The First Vision and Mormon Evangelizing”
10:40 AM
Joshua Matson: “’For Their Benefit in Their Experience and Travels in the Flesh’: Discerning Spirits in LDS Theology”
11:10 AM
Benjamin Keogh: “There is a Priest-Hood with the Holy Ghost”
11:40 AM
Michael Ulrich and Salvatore Corrado: “‘The Old Catholic Church Is Worth More Than All’: Joseph Smith and Catholicism”
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 PM
Hans Noot: “The Reformation and Its Many and Changing Faces”
2:00 PM
Katherine Kitterman: “Fasting and Piety in Early Mormonism”
2:30 PM
Rosemary Demos: “The Unsure Word of Prophecy”
3:00 PM
Ugo A. Perego: “The Changing Forms of the Sacrament”
3:30 PM
Ezra Steinvoorte: “Mormonism as a Worldwide Church: The Viability of a Label”
4:00 PM
Richard Sleegers: “Pedagogy of Perfection: Joseph Smith’s View of Teaching Perfectionism and its Contemporary Applicability”
4:30 PM
Koen van de Glind: “Mormonism: An Answer to Postmodernity”
PLACE:
Brigham Young University
Joseph F. Smith Building
Room B094
*This yearly symposium is sponsored by the Mormon Scholars Foundation
and co-sponsored by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
and the Wheatley Institution.