Kimberly Matheson is the Laura F. Willes Research Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Her research centers on Book of Mormon theology, Christian contemplative practice, and the continental philosophy of religion. Kimberly holds a PhD in theology from Loyola University Chicago, an MTS in philosophy of religion from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA in ancient near east studies from Brigham Young University. She is the author of Helaman: A Brief Theological Introduction (Maxwell, 2020) and sits on the boards of the Book of Mormon Studies Association and the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar.
Education
- Ph.D., Theology, Loyola University Chicago, 2022
- Dissertation: “Soul as Paraphrase: The Formalism and Minority of Prayer”
- M.T.S., Philosophy of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, 2017
- B.A., Ancient Near East Studies, Brigham Young University, 2011
Books
- Helaman: A Brief Theological Introduction (Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2020)
Journal Articles
- “Points, Plasticity, and the Logic of Contraction in Alain Badiou and Catherine Malabou,” Symposium 25.1 (2021): 180-204.
- “Narrative Doubling and the Structure of Helaman,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28 (2019): 69 – 90.
Book Chapters and Articles
- With Joseph M. Spencer, “‘Great Cause to Mourn’: The Complexity of The Book of Mormon’s Presentation of Gender and Race,” pages 298 – 320 in The Book of Mormon: Americanist Approaches (ed. Jared Hickman and Elizabeth Fenton, Oxford University Press, 2019)
- “The Lord’s Prayer(s) in Jacob 7,” pages 28 – 42 in Christ and Anti-Christ: Reading Jacob 7 (ed. Adam S. Miller and Joseph M. Spencer, Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2017)