Jennifer C. Lane

Jennifer C. Lane is a professor emerita of religious education at Brigham Young University–Hawaii and served as Neal A. Maxwell Research Associate at the Maxwell Institute at BYU. She received her PhD in religion from Claremont Graduate University, with an emphasis in the history of Christianity. She received her MA and BA degrees from BYU in ancient Near Eastern studies and history, respectively. She has served on the Board of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and of the Latter-day Saints and the Bible Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. She served as Dean of Religious Education and Associate Academic Vice President for Curriculum at BYU–Hawaii. She has written Let's Talk about Temple and Ritual and Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life as well as numerous articles and book chapters on context and analysis of scripture, theology, and medieval studies. Her presentations and publications particularly focus on covenant, redemption, worship, and holiness. She continues to research and write on these themes, as well as on Franciscan history and piety.

Books

Let’s Talk about Temples and Ritual. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for the Modern World. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020.

Selected Book Chapters and Articles

“An Overview of the Sabbath in the Synoptic Gospels: Texts and Reflections.” In Sacred Time: The Sabbath as a Perpetual Covenant, ed. Gaye Strathearn, 83-103. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2023.
“The Whole Meaning of the Law: Christ’s Vicarious Sacrifice,” in Approaching Holiness: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Old Testament, ed. Krystal V. L. Pierce and David Rolph Seely (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2021), 159-78.
“Remembering Redemption, Avoiding Idolatry: A Covenant Perspective on Caring for the Poor,” in Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament, ed. Avram R. Shannon, Gaye Strathearn, and Joshua M. Sears (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2021), 256-90.
“Redemption’s Grand Design for Both the Living and the Dead,” in Raising the Standard of Truth: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Early Restoration, ed. Scott C. Esplin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020), 189-210.
“Choosing Divinity, Choosing Christ” in How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith, ed. Rachel Cope, Carter Charles, and Jordan T. Watkins (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020), 43-73.
“Seeking the Sacred: Replicating the Holy Sepulchre and Jerusalem Pilgrimage,” in Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, ed. Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, Shon D. Hopkin,(Provo, UT: Interpreter Foundation and Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2020), 367–83.
“Sitting Enthroned: A Scriptural Perspective.” Religious Educator 19:1 (Jan/Feb 2018), 103-117.
“I Am Among You As One that Serveth.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, 5:2 (Fall 2009): 57-67.
"Embodied Knowledge of God.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology 2:1 (Spring 2006): 59-69.
“The Lord Will Redeem His People: Adoptive Covenant and Redemption in the Old Testament,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 298-310.

Podcast Episodes

BYU Devotionals and Convocations

“The Habit of Curriculum,” September 24, 2014, BYU-Hawaii
“Faith in the Redemption,” January 15, 2013, BYU-Hawaii
“We Are Not Our Own,” December 2, 2004, BYU-Hawaii