Adam S. Miller
Appearance
Adam S. Miller | |
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Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | Brigham Young (comparative literature) Villanova (philosophy MA, PhD) |
Occupation | Associate professor at Collin College |
Known for | LDS lay theologian Founder of various LDS religious studies venues |
Awards | 2011 "Best Essayist," Association for Mormon Letters[1] |
Website | AdamSMiller.net |
Adam S. Miller, an American writer of religious criticism and interpretation and also of contemporary Latter-day Saint lay theology, is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, where he directs the college's honors program.[2][3][4]
Miller has offered a fresh interpretation of such things as Christ's atonement,[5] the appropriate relationship of scholarship with faith,[6][7] and the nature of Latter-day Saint "testimony".[8] Miller co-founded Salt Press, a publisher of Mormon studies sold to BYU's Maxwell Institute, [9] and also founded and serves as co-director of the annual colloquia, the Mormon Theology Seminar.[10]
References
- ^ "Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology".
- ^ "Lecture by Dr. Adam Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Collin College (2014-09-19)".
- ^ Riess, Jana. "Mormon author says "grace is not God's backup plan"".
- ^ "Do we really care if the US Founding Fathers were anti-Catholic?". 28 January 2015.
- ^ Terryl L. Givens (2014). Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Tribune, Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake. "BYU prof fears Mormon scholars are giving in to secularism".
- ^ Groote, Michael De (9 May 2009). "A Mormon theology manifesto".
- ^ http://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/struk-the_hermeneutics_of_testimony.pdf
- ^ "Salt Press titles coming to the Maxwell Institute".
- ^ Riess, Jana. ""I know the Church is true," and other Mormon muddles".