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VIDEO—Tisa Wenger, “Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal”
Tisa Wenger’s MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: “Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.” WatchThe ideal of religious freedom is rightly celebrated, but historian Tisa Wenger observes that the history of its uses is a “cautionary tale,” too. Religious freedom talk in America has tended to privilege the dominant white Christian population and to support U.S. imperial expansion. At the same time, minority groups at home and colonized people abroad have invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life.In this lecture, Tisa Wenger asks how we can understand the history of Latter-day Saint religious freedom talk within this broad comparative frame. About Tisa WengerTisa Wenger is Associate Professor of American Religious History in the Divinity School, American Studies, and Religious Studies at Yale University. She is author of “Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal” (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
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VIDEO—Hauglid and Jensen, “A Window Into Joseph Smith's Translation”
The recent Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture featuring Brian Hauglid and Robin Jensen is now available to watch online: “A Window Into Joseph Smith's Translation: Exploring the Book of Abraham Manuscripts.” Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tznpRR0Fos8&index=2&t=0s&list=PLOrN0FV73AsIPDg3ikykCBYeH4yiiIsroSome of the most puzzling documents left in the wake of Joseph Smith's prophetic career pertain to the Book of Abraham—from the ancient papyrus to the nineteenth-century notebooks. For over a century these documents were specially housed away from public view. In 2018 The Joseph Smith Papers Project team at last made them eminently accessible in volume 4 of the 'Revelations and Translations' series.Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid co-edited the landmark volume, and in the process they learned more about the origins and uses of the cryptic Egyptian papers which Joseph Smith and his associates worked on in beginning in the mid-1830s. About the SpeakersRobin Scott Jensen is an associate managing historian and the project archivist for the Joseph Smith Papers. He coedited the first three volumes in the Revelations and Translations series. He specializes in document and transcription analysis, and is also a member of the Church History Department Editorial Board. He earned an MA degree in American history from Brigham Young University, and a second MA in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He is now pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Utah.Brian M. Hauglid is an associate professor and visiting fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He earned a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Utah. He has worked in Book of Abraham studies for over twenty years. As an editor for the Maxwell Institute’s “Studies in the Book of Abraham” series, Hauglid assisted in compiling and editing Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham and Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant. He also published A Textual History of the Book of Abraham.
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VIDEO—“Forgiveness & Reconciliation: A Maxwell Institute Symposium”
Mpho Tutu van Furth, Joseph Sebarenzi, and Deidre Green's presentations are now available to watch online: “Forgiveness & Reconciliation: A Maxwell Institute Symposium.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAZsG56G1MBecause we live in an imperfect world, each of us will need to forgive others and each of us will need to be forgiven. Perhaps we can easily practice forgiveness for everyday mistakes, but what about unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence? Sometimes we risk making the practice of forgiveness too easy. How can we work to make forgiveness more meaningful?Mpho Tutu van Furth, Joseph Sebarenzi, Lisa Faulkner-Byrne, and Deidre Nicole Green have thought deeply about what forgiveness and reconciliation look like in the contexts of Rwanda, South Africa, and Ireland. At this symposium they examine forgiveness and reconciliation in diverse contexts and illuminate principles that apply more universally to everyday life.
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VIDEO—Kenneth L. Woodward, “Is the Future of American Religion Already Behind Us?”
Kenneth L. Woodward’s MI Guest Lecture and panel discussion is now available to watch online: “Is the Future of American Religion Already Behind Us?” WatchKenneth L. Woodward spent nearly forty years as religion editor for Newsweek magazine. What did his 750 articles—nearly 100 of them cover articles—his reporting from five continents, and his four books teach him about the place of religion in American society?Is the Future of American Religion Already Behind Us? featuring a panel discussion on religion in public lifewith J.B. Haws and Kelsey Dallas
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VIDEO—Adam Miller, “Life In Christ Before You Die”
Adam Miller’s MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: “Life In Christ Before You Die.” WatchWe often hope for an abundant life with Christ in the next life, but how can we let ourselves and our own desires die so we can be born again to a new life, a full life in Christ, here and now in this mortal life?In this MI Guest Lecture, Adam Miller offers suggestions—at once scriptural, philosophical, and literary—for how to share a life with Christ today. The lecture is based on his forthcoming book, An Early Resurrection: Life In Christ Before You Die. About Adam S. MillerAdam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He and his wife, Gwen, have three children. He is the author of many books, including Letters to a Young Mormon (Maxwell Institute & Deseret Book, 2018), Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (Greg Kofford Books, 2012) and Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Fordham University Press, 2013). His latest book is An Early Resurrection: Life In Christ Before You Die (Maxwell Institute & Deseret Book, 2018). He also serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.
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VIDEO—John Rogers, “Latter-Day Milton”
John Rogers’s MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: “Latter-Day Milton: Early Mormonism and the Political Theologies of Paradise Lost.” WatchDid John Milton’s seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost play a role in the early development of Mormon theology?Milton’s heretical speculative theology left an indelible imprint on the conceptual and imaginative structures of early Mormon doctrines of Creation, the Fall, and redemption. Past scholars have noted parallels between Paradise Lost and the visionary writings of Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. But Yale University professor of English John Rogers believes some of the most exciting Miltonic contributions to Mormon speculative theology emerged in the years just after Smith’s death in the work of Parley P. Pratt and Orson Pratt. About John Rogers A professor of English at Yale University, John Rogers is the author of Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton, a book awarded prizes by the Milton Society of America and the Modern Language Association. He is also author of several articles on Renaissance (mainly seventeenth-century) English literature and religious culture. He is currently completing a book titled Milton’s Poetry and the Theologies of Liberalism, which looks at the impact on Milton of the dangerous early modern heresy of Socinianism, which denied the existence of the Trinity, and which radically secularized the doctrine of Christ’s atonement on the cross. He has also begun a new book, from which the material for this Maxwell Institute guest lecture is taken, on the reading of the seventeenth-century poem Paradise Lost in the spiritual hothouse of nineteenth-century America. The focus of that book, tentatively titled Latter-day Milton: Paradise Lost and the Creation of America’s God, examines the engagement of Mormonism and Seventh-Day Adventism with Milton’s epic poem and the highly publicized revelation, in 1823, of Milton’s secret and hitherto unpublished espousal of anti-Trinitarianism.
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VIDEO—Adam S. Miller, "'Letters to a Young Mormon' Unplugged"
Adam Miller's Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: 'Adam S. Miller, ''Letters to a Young Mormon' Unplugged.' Watch https://youtu.be/m9ZMs_KwLfIDoes your faith feel a bit out of joint? Letters To a Young Mormon can help. The book’s author, Adam S. Miller, is a Latter-day Saint professor of philosophy. His small book contains massive messages to inspire your spirit, heart, and mind. The book is available now from the Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book.Miller visited Brigham Young University in January for discussion about the costs and rewards of living a life of faith in our latter days. The lecture contains a stirring call to defend families by rooting out misogyny.Excerpts from Miller's lecture were also included in BYU Magazine, Winter 2018 Issue. About Adam S. MillerAdam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He and his wife, Gwen, have three children. He is the author of many books, including Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (Greg Kofford Books, 2012), Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Fordham University Press, 2013), and two editions of Letters to a Young Mormon (Maxwell Institute & Deseret Book, 2018). He also serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.
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VIDEO—Anthea Butler, “Caught in the Tentacles: American Baptist Home Missions to Mormons...”
Professor Anthea Butler's MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: 'Caught in the Tentacles: American Baptist Home Missions to Mormons in Utah in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century.' Watch https://youtu.be/W0u2IsACJC4In 1898, the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society published a startling tract called “The Mormon Octopus.” The Baptist group warned the nation about a severe danger lurking in the newly-established state of Utah: “Mormonism is an ecclesiastical and, since statehood, a political DESPOTISM. Like a huge octopus, the Mormon hierarchy is fastening its tentacles throughout the Rocky Mountain States, and is sapping the very life-blood of American freedom.” In this Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture, Anthea Butler sheds light on a long-forgotten mission Baptists undertook to rid the nation of this deadly octopus—they took their fight straight to the heart of Utah.P.S.—Coming on Friday, Butler will be featured on the Maxwell Institute Podcast talking about her book, Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World. About Anthea Butler Anthea Butler is Graduate Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Butler’s research and writing spans religion and politics, religion and gender, African American religion, sexuality, media, religion, and popular culture. A sought-after media commentator on the BBC, MSNBC, CNN and other media outlets, Professor Butler also provides op-ed on contemporary politics, religion, and race at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She has also served as a consultant on the PBS series God in America and the American Experience feature about Aimee Semple McPherson. She is the author of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World and is currently completing a book on religion, politics, and evangelicals from the U.S. presidential elections of 2008 and 2016. Her website is antheabutler.com.
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VIDEO—Ravi Gupta, “Who Owns Religion? A Hindu Perspective on Being a Disciple-Scholar”
Professor Ravi Gupta's recent Maxwell Institute Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: 'Who Owns Religion? A Hindu Perspective on Being a Disciple-Scholar.' Watch https://youtu.be/1IvfGAGwzXo
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VIDEO—Samuel M. Brown, “To Save the Bible, First You Must Kill It”
Samuel M. Brown’s MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: “To Save the Bible, First You Must Kill It: A Book of Mormon Lecture.” WatchSome scholars have referred to Joseph Smith’s 1830 Book of Mormon as “America’s Bible,” as though it was intended to replace the Protestant Bible. What has not yet been much appreciated is the extent to which the Book of Mormon was intended to save the Bible. In this lecture, Samuel M. Brown argues that the Book of Mormon hoped to save the Bible from things like religious voluntarism and the resulting interpretive chaos, from cessationist denial of miracles; it sought to make the Bible credibly American, to make evidential Christianity internally consistent. The Book of Mormon seemed to anticipate higher criticism and the threats posed to the Bible by late modernism. As such, the Book of Mormon is a crucial text of transitional readings of the Bible. It is a lens through which to view changes in biblical authority and interpretation.But, Brown says, in order to save the Bible, the Book of Mormon had to “kill” it; unmasking the nature of scripture—its tentative, regional character, its fundamental inadequacy as a written text. There is strength in weakness. About Samuel M. BrownSamuel M. Brown is Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah and an intensive care physician in the Shock Trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center. His award-winning book In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. His other books include Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human, as well as First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith In Light of the Temple, part of the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith series.
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VIDEO—Adam Powell, “Crisis Converted”
Adam Powell’s MI Guest Lecture is now available to watch online: “Crisis Converted: Opposition, Salvation, and Elasticity in Early Mormonism.” WatchWhy do some new religious movements succeed while others fail? Why are notions of deification—the belief that humans progress toward divinity—found in both early Christian history and in early Mormon history? Did the opposition experienced by Joseph Smith and his followers have lasting effects? In past decades, sociologists were left to answer the first question while theologians and historians addressed the second and third, respectively. In this lecture, Dr. Adam Powell argues that all three questions are very much interrelated. Borrowing from identity theory and the sociology of knowledge, Powell suggests ways that the social context of the nineteenth century influenced the religious thoughts of early Mormons. About Adam PowellAdam Powell is Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University (UK) where he was a recipient of the Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise. Prior to Durham, Dr. Powell was Assistant Professor and Director of the MA in Religious Studies at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina. He has published on topics ranging from patristic theology to the history of sociology and from Mormonism to identity theory. He is also the author of Hans Mol and the Sociology of Religion as well as Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy.
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VIDEO—Deidre Green, “Saving Self-Sacrifice”
Jesus commanded his disciples to 'love one another '(John 13:34). How can a Christian disciple fulfill this obligation in cases where they are being threatened or abused? Should a victim of domestic violence passively endure suffering, or does the gospel provide a better way? In this lecture, Maxwell Institute visiting scholar Deidre Nicole Green discusses problems with a Christian ethic of self-sacrifice and offers solutions by drawing on scripture and Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. “Christian love calls us both to name injustice and prevent victimization. Kierkegaard puts it thus, ‘it is part of love’s work, that with the help of the loving one it becomes entirely clear to the unloving one how irresponsibly he has acted so that he deeply feels his wrong.’ He opines that it would be ‘a weakness, not love, to make the unloving one believe that he was right in the evil he did.’” —Deidre Green Green's lecture, 'Saving Self-Sacrifice,' is now available on the Maxwell Institute's YouTube channel. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZFNlxDVnOg About Deidre Green Deidre Nicole Green is an adjunct professor of religion at BYU and a visiting scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. She is author of Works of Love in a World of Violence (Mohr Siebeck, 2016). Green earned a PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University, after receiving a Master of the Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a Bachelor of the Arts in Philosophy from BYU.
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VIDEO—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “‘Huddling Together’: Rethinking the Position of Women in Early Mormonism”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has spent much of her career investigating the lives of nineteenth-century women. But it wasn’t until her most recent project that she turned her attention to women of her own faith tradition, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Having grown up in the LDS faith she encountered many familiar things through her latest research. But she also discovered much to “trouble the old stories,” things that cast new light on what it as like to be a Mormon in the early days—especially for women.“There’s a lot to learn from this story,” Ulrich explained in a recent lecture at Brigham Young University. “It’s a sad story. It’s a very sad story. People are working through horrible conflicts and confusion. And people got hurt. But there’s something about the resilience of these interesting women…It’s an uplifting story.”In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Maxwell Institute co-sponsored a lecture in March by Dr. Ulrich in partnership with the BYU Women’s Study Program and BYU’s Department of History on her book A House Full of Females. The lecture, “‘Huddling Together’: Rethinking the Position of Women in Early Mormonism,” is now available on the Maxwell Institute’s YouTube channel. Watch About Laurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher Ulrich was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. Her book A Midwife’s Tale received a Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book is A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.
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VIDEO—Georgia Frank, "Feeling Christian: Re-educating the Emotions in Late Antiquity"
'Quit being so emotional. We need to be rational right now!'Have you heard or said that before? It probably triggered some strong emotions. We're used to thinking about our emotions as something separate from our ability to reason. We think of emotions as being irrational. But is this a rational belief? Dr. Georgia Frank challenges that assumption of irrationality, arguing that even though our emotions are impulsive, they don't exist completely beyond reason: 'Even in our impulses, there's some kind of thinking going on, and that's what I want to talk about...Unlike some psychological or philosophical schools which regard the emotions as non-rational, I approach emotions as consisting of judgments; they are tied up in rationality. In addition to being cognitive and physiological, emotions also reflect one's social and cultural context.' —Dr. Georgia Frank As Christianity spread in late antiquity, the meaning of emotions—and the expectations about how to deal with them—shifted. Watch Dr. Frank unpack some of this history in her lecture, “Feeling Christian: Re-educating the Emotions in Late Antiquity,” now available on the Institute's YouTube channel. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJbDSp1djM ABOUT GEORGIA FRANKGeorgia Frank is a professor of religion at Colgate University. Her interests include ancient Christian pilgrimage, icons, relics, monasticism. She is author of The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2000).
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"The Book of Mormon Meets Pentecostals" by Christopher Thomas now available on YouTube
Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing Christian faiths in the world today. How might the Book of Mormon be viewed within that context? Professor John Christopher Thomas returned to Brigham Young University in October to talk about the Book of Mormon’s reception among—and relevance to—Pentecostals past and present. An audio recording of the lecture including Thomas's slides is now available on our YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ZHcb4WI1IThomas examines Pentecostal forerunners (leaders and laity) who had personal or theological contact with the Book of Mormon and Mormonism in general. He surveys attitudes and assessments of the scripture in early Pentecostal periodical literature. In conclusion he briefly compares aspects of Pentecostal and Book of Mormon theology.The Maxwell Institute’s Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies examines the Book of Mormon in each of its contexts—from the ancient through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It continues to benefit from the insights of interested readers within and beyond the LDS tradition.
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"A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon" by Christopher Thomas now available on YouTube
As the keystone scripture of the Latter-day Saint faith, the Book of Mormon has spiritually nourished millions. Over the past decade it has received increasing attention beyond Mormonism. Scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds have come to better appreciate its richness, complexity, and messages. On January 15, 2015 the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies sponsored a lecture by Christopher Thomas, the Clarence J. Abbott Professor of Biblical Studies at Pentecostal Theological Seminary. Thomas's lecture briefly examined the book's structure, content, theology, and reception history, focusing on insights from his forthcoming work on the Book of Mormon. The full lecture is now available on our YouTube channel:
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March 27: CPART lecture on "The Bible in Early Christianity"
Origen was a theological and exegetical superhero for the early Christian movement. He was nicknamed 'Adamantius,' the 'Man of Steel,' by the first Christian church historian, Eusebius. Origen brought the best philosophical views of his time into conversation with scripture the former being subordinate to the latter and his goal was to improve the lives of his fellow Christians. After his death around 234 CE Origen eventually fell into disfavor among church authorities and was labeled a heretic during the sixth century. In spite of his deep commitment to the Bible, the Man of Steel sunk in the eyes of the church. In spite of his heretical status he maintained a lot of influence in the West, but his influence in the East was largely extinguished.
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