Joseph Spencer

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Joseph M. Spencer is a philosopher and an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

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Presenter InfoJoseph M. Spencer is a philosopher and an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He’s the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters, as well as of seven books (most recently A Word in Season: Isaiah’s Reception in the Book of Mormon, published in 2023 by the University of Illinois Press). Spencer has served as the editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and the chair of the Book of Mormon Academy, and he is now the president of the Book of Mormon Studies Association, the associate director of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, and a co-editor of the book series Introductions to Mormon Thought.Presentation TitleWhen Nibley Met the TempleAbstractHugh Nibley remains a towering influence in the intellectual culture of the Latter-day Saints, but little work has been done to put his thinking in context. He was and is known as a defender of the faith, and his interest in Latter-day Saint temple ritual is notorious, but what originally prompted his lifelong pursuit of understanding the idea of the temple? In this talk, I will investigate both the academic context out of which Nibley's interest was born and the Latter-day Saint theological context to which Nibley brought that interest between the late 1930s and the middle 1960s. The story is one of maverick methods and political cynicism, dawning apologetic possibilities and novel theologies. Above all, the story is one that might reveal the twenty-first-century relevance of a thinker who is now often taken to be a relic from a past age.

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