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Exploring Mormon Thought, Episode 5: Apostasy and Concepts of Perfection (Part 2) By Corey Ostler Part 2 of the second chapter in The Attributes of God. We discuss Process Thought/Theology, developed by Alfred N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, and juxtapose it with the previously discussed Thomist/Classical Theism view. We also examine the striking similarities between Process Thought and Joseph Smith's revelations. Topics Discussed: Relative Perfection Perfect Relatedness Potentiality Proportional Dependence Complexity Temporality Mutability and Immutability Passibility Creator By Organizing Maximal Persuasive Power Maximal Knowledge Learn more about Blake Ostler’s book series, Exploring Mormon Thought. Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Exploring Mormon Thought, Episode 3: The Meaning of God in Mormon Thought (Part 2) By Corey Ostler Part 2 of the First chapter in The Attributes of God. We go over the following topics: Subordinate "Gods" Apotheosis: Human Gods “God” as a Relationship of Unity Among a Plurality of Persons God and Perfection God and Possible Worlds Learn more about Blake Ostler’s book series, Exploring Mormon Thought. Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Exploring Mormon Thought, Episode 2: The Meaning of God in Mormon Thought (Part 1) By Corey Ostler Part 1 of the First chapter in The Attributes of God. We go over the following topics: The Meaning of "God" In Mormon Discourse Attribute and Essence Is "God" a Title or a Name? God and Monotheism The Divine Thou Learn more about Blake Ostler’s book series, Exploring Mormon Thought. Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Exploring Mormon Thought, Episode 1: Interview with Blake Ostler By Corey Ostler My father Blake Ostler is a well-known Mormon Theologian and Scholar (In a addition to being a full-time attorney ) Over the years he has written several articles for scholarly Mormon publications such as Dialogue, FARMS, Sunstone Mag, Element, and others. What I want to do is take the complex issues in these books and discuss them in a way that makes sense to the average listener. So this is sort of going to be like taking me to school on a lot of these issues and topics. For the most part we will go chapter by chapter of each book starting with the first one: The Attributes of God However I wanted to start off with an episode of getting to know Blake Ostler. His background, journey and motivations for writing these books and so forth. Learn more about Blake Ostler’s book series, Exploring Mormon Thought. Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

From its beginning, the Kofford Books AuthorCast was envisioned as a show to connect our authors with our audience. We have done this through author interviews, recordings of live events, author readings from their books and, more recently, with our monthly This Month in Mormon Studies show that comments on the field of Mormon Studies more widely. In line with our vision of bringing our authors to you, we are excited to announce a new series that we will sharing through the Kofford Books AuthorCast: Exploring Mormon Thought with Blake Ostler. Blake is the author of the multi-volume series by the same name, published by Greg Kofford Books. In fact, Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attributes of God, was the first book ever published by Greg Kofford Books and is considered a groundbreaking work in Mormon theology. Throughout his volumes, Blake took on challenging philosophical topics such as classical vs Mormon theism, the problem of evil, the Atonement, the nature of God; and he discussed the Mormon temple endowment in relationship with the Atonement in a stand-alone volume titled Fire on the Horizon: A Meditation on the Endowment and Love of Atonement. Outside of his books, Blake has published widely on Mormon philosophy in journals such as Religious Studies, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, and Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, as well as Mormon scholarly publications Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Sunstone, BYU Studies, and FARMS Review of Books. He has also contributed chapters to Discourses in Mormon Theology and Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology, and has taught Philosophy at Brigham Young University. But enough about his credentials. This podcast series, Exploring Mormon Thought, is produced and hosted independently by Corey Ostler, Blake’s son. Corey's aim is to take the complex issues presented in his books and discuss them chapter by chapter in a way that makes sense to a general audience. As of this recording, they have released five episodes. We’ll release all five together, and then we’ll continue releasing more as they become available. We hope you enjoy this new podcast series. Learn more about Blake Ostler’s book series, Exploring Mormon Thought. Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the past month. Highlights from this month include: Blogs becoming independent presses, Mormon studies nerds filing briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Marlin K. Jensen and insider baseball, summer book club, temple ships and Ouija boards, and big words like indigeneity!   In the News Firm Foundation Expo and bad science BCC Press; See also Ben Park in Newsweek; See also Signature Books digital archives project Jana Riess The Next Mormons survey: trust gap   On the Blogs Vincenzo di Francesca: Cultural Impediments in the Way of His Baptism Mormon Scholars Opposed to Refugee and Immigrant Ban Embracing the Chaos and Diversity of Mormonism's Past: Laurie Maffly-Kipp's MHA Presidential Address Mormon Interpreter: Looking Back, Almost Five Years On “Providing intellectual and devotional frameworks” (Nibley Fellow Reflections) Looking Deeper Into Joseph Smith's First Vision: Imagery, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Construction of Memory An Evening With Elder Marlin K. Jensen My Thoughts on Patrick Mason's Miller Eccles Presentation BCC Press Q&A for academic historians The Third Annual Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females   Podcasts LDS Women at the Pulpit - Jenny Reeder and Kate Holbrook Tithing and the Law of Consecration - Steven C. Harper Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and “A House Full of Females” Darron Smith interviews on Gospel Tangents Richard Bennett interviews on Gospel Tangents On the Erasure of Native Americans from the Book of Mormon Conversation: Thomas Murphy Kava, Culture, Indigeneity and Mormonism: Daniel Hernandez God, the Image of God, Theosis, Sex and Godly Creation: Blair Ostler Recent Book Releases  Steven Peck, Science the Key to Theology: Volume One: Preliminaries (BCC Press); See also Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. Waite, eds., Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (Oxford University Press) Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (University of Utah Press) Published Articles Brian Hauglid, “Book of Abraham and Translating the Sacred” Robin Scott Jensen, “The Joseph Smith Papers and the Book of Abraham” Christopher Blythe, “The Church and Kingdom of God: Ecclesiastical Interpretations of the Council of Fifty”   Conferences and Events Reid Neilson and Nathan Waite at Benchmark Books 2017 UVU Mormon Studies Conference on YouTube: Thurs sessions, Friday sessions Sunstone Symposium in Southern Utah 2017 Association for Mormon Letters conference; AML Book Awards, Fundraiser Sunstone Symposium in Boise 2017 Mormon History Association Registration 2017 Sunstone Symposium SLC 2017 FairMormon Conference 2017 JWHA in Nauvoo   Call for Papers/Applications  The International Society of Landscape, Place and Material Culture   Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the past month.   In the News Dr. Robert Rees appointed chair of Mormon studies at GTU Community of Christ announces three new World Church Historians Joseph M. Spencer named editor of JBMS George Q. Cannon digitization update (sort of) 175th Anniversary of the Articles of Faith Richard Turley honored by Mormon Historic Sites Foundation Signature Books newspaper digitization at Archive.org JSP creates index to Joseph Fielding Smith's Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith On the Blogs William Law’s Amazing (and Suspect) Diary Florence Smith Jacobsen: Saving Our Material Heritage Eugenics and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Mormonism in the Alt-Right Fake News, Leaked Documents, and the Book of Mormon Also check out: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: The Fake News of 1859 Finding a Story, or how to Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: An Introduction to The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible: Overcoming our Suspicions of Science Three big things (and some little things) this lifelong Mormon learned from Matt Bowman's history of the Church Denver Snuffer's teachings to be canonized The good and bad of studying history Paul Reeve wrote the race essay The Relief Society 175th Anniversary–A Sermon Five People Who Helped Found the Relief Society Podcasts Mark Lyman Staker on Gospel Tangents The Book of Mormon as a 19th Centruy Political Commentary: Christopher C. Smith on A Thoughtful Faith The Three Witnesses–Larry Morris on LDS Perspectives In Brigham Young's Words–Gerrit Dirkmaat and LaJean Carruth on LDS Perspectives New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Revelation on Mormon Matters Also: Faith Matters Women at the Latter-day Saint pulpit, with Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook on MIPodcast Recent Book Releases  Devery Anderson's Mississippi Freedem Summer Kickstarter Patrick Q. Mason, What is Mormonism? A Students Introduction (Routledge) Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece L. Johnson, and Lajean Purecell Carruth, eds., Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers (University of Oklahoma Press) Michael Austin and Ardis E. Parshall, eds., Dime Novel Mormons (Greg Kofford Books) Published Papers Stephen Taysom, “’Satan Mourns Naked Upon the Earth’: Locating Mormon Possession and Exorcism Rituals in the American Religious Landscape, 1830-1977" William Davis, “Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.’s Formal Education”   Conferences and Events UVU Mormon Studies Conference Book of Mormon Conference (formerly Book of Mormon Archaeological Foundation)  Mormon Transhumanist Association 2017 conference Mormon History Association 2017 conference Kate Holbrook at Benchmark Books for At the Pulpit release event Call for Papers/Applications  Neal A. Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar Surveying Trends in the Field: Mormon History and Mormon Studies in the Modern Academy   Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Kofford Books AuthorCast, hosted by Brian Whitney. In this episode, we are featuring a recording from a round table press event for Dime Novel Mormons that took place on March 17 at the Greg Kofford Books office. Dime Novel Mormons is the latest volume in The Mormon Image in Literature series, edited by Michael Austin and Ardis E. Parshall. About the book: For this volume, four full-length dime novels have been chosen to represent different aspects of the Mormon image in dime novels: Eagle Plume, the White Avenger. A Tale of the Mormon Trail (1870); The Doomed Dozen; or, Dolores, the Danite’s Daughter (1881); Frank Merriwell Among the Mormons; or, The Lost Tribes of Israel (1897); and The Bradys Among the Mormons; or, Secret Work in Salt Lake City (1903). The often-lurid and scandalous portrayals of Mormons in these dime novels had consequences for the relationship between Mormons and the rest of the United States. They would represent reality for millions of people, and the basic portrayals found their way into more serious literature. Understanding how these stereotypes were created and first employed can help us understand many things about the way that Mormonism has always functioned in American culture. Preview the volume here. Read a Q&A with the editors here. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the past month.   In the News Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on NPR's Fresh Air  Neylan McBaine, “As potters at the wheel, let us shape Utah from inside and outside” in SL Trib Henry J. Eyring named president of BYU-Idaho Updates to Joseph Smith Papers website On the Blogs “More Thoughts on Mormons and Muslims” by Paul Reeve “The Modern Mormon Athletic Image” by Ben Park “The Complexities of History in The Ensign” by Ben Spackman “The Dance of Discourse” by Hannah Jung Profile on Greg Kofford Books at AML by Andrew Hall “Canon as Context: Insights from the Bible Wars” by Mike Austin   Recent Book Releases  Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part Two (Greg Kofford Books) Devery S. Anderson, Ed., Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883 (Signature Books) Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. Waite, eds., Settling the Valley: Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (Oxford University Press) Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, eds., At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women (Church Historian's Press) Book Reviews by Brandt Ann Taves, Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (Princeton University Press)   Events Faith and Knowledge Conference Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology UVU Mormon Studies Conference Kate Holbrook speaking at Tabernacle   Call for Papers/Applications  Joseph Smith Papers Conference   Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts

In this episode, we invited Scott Hales back to discuss The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part Two. About the book: Fifteen-year-old Enid Gardner is a self-proclaimed “weird Mormon girl.” When she isn’t chatting with Joseph Smith or the Book of Abraham mummy, she’s searching for herself between the spaces of doubt and belief. Along the way, she must grapple with her Mormon faith as it adapts to the twenty-first century. She also must confront the painful mysteries at the heart of her strained relationship with her ailing mother. This edition of The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl recasts the award-winning webcomic as a two-part graphic novel. With revised and previously unpublished comics, it features the familiar story that captivated thousands online, yet offers new glimpses into Enid’s year-long odyssey. Part one set up the groundwork for Enid, but part two is where things in her life really get into motion. Enid's journey of self-discovery continues as she learns more about her mother's past and as she comes of age, learning more about her faith and relationships with others. The Garden of Enid, Part Two is sure to make you laugh, cry, and reflect.    Preview the volume here. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download Subscribe in Pocket Casts