God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar

God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar

God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15 collects the proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar dedicated to investigating the text of Mosiah 15 in the Book of Mormon. Edited by Andrew Smith and Joseph Spencer, contributors include Joseph Spencer, Adam Miller,Deidre Nicole Green, Andrew Smith, Rob Fergus, Nathan B. Oman, Sue Mangelson, Kimberly Matheson, and Michelle Lee. The Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar is based on a novel idea: that Latter-day Saints do theology. Doing theology is different from weighing history or deciding doctrine. Theology experiments with questions and advances hypotheses. It tests new angles and pulls loose threads. To this end, the Seminar organizes interdisciplinary, collaborative, theological readings of Latter-day Saint scripture. Seminar participants with diverse backgrounds closely explore familiar texts in creative ways. In frequent partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar presents these experiments upon the word to foster greater theological engagement with basic Restoration texts.