Adam S. Miller

Adam S. Miller
Adam S. Miller in 2018
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"[1] and 2016 non-fiction book finalist, Association for Mormon Letters[2]
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.[3][4][5]

Miller has offered a fresh interpretation of such things as Christ's atonement,[6] the appropriate relationship of scholarship with faith,[7][8] and the nature of Latter-day Saint "testimony".[9] Miller co-founded Salt Press, a publisher of Mormon studies sold to BYU's Maxwell Institute,[10] and also founded and serves as co-director of the annual colloquia, the Mormon Theology Seminar.[11]

Books

Authored

  • The Sun Has Burned My Skin: A Modest Paraphrase of Solomon's Song of Songs. 2017.
  • Future Mormon: Essays in Mormon Theology. 2016.
  • Emma Mason & Mark Knight, eds. (2016). The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. New Directions in Religion and Literature.
  • Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes. 2016.
  • Grace is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Roman. 2015.
  • Letters to a Young Mormon. 2014.
  • Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. 2013.
  • Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology. 2012.
  • Badiou, Marion, and St. Paul: Immanent Grace. Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy. 2008.

Edited

  • A Dream, a Rock, and a Pillar of Fire: Reading 1 Nephi 1. 2017.
  • Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3. 2017.
  • An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32. 2011.

References

  1. ↑ "Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology".
  2. ↑ Rappleye, Christine (19 April 2017). "Association for Mormon Letters 2016 award finalists announced".
  3. ↑ "Lecture by Dr. Adam Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Collin College (2014-09-19)".
  4. ↑ Riess, Jana. "Mormon author says "grace is not God's backup plan"".
  5. ↑ "Do we really care if the US Founding Fathers were anti-Catholic?". 28 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Terryl L. Givens (2014). Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity. Oxford University Press.
  7. ↑ Tribune, Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake. "BYU prof fears Mormon scholars are giving in to secularism".
  8. ↑ Groote, Michael De (9 May 2009). "A Mormon theology manifesto".
  9. ↑ http://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/struk-the_hermeneutics_of_testimony.pdf
  10. ↑ "Salt Press titles coming to the Maxwell Institute".
  11. ↑ Riess, Jana. ""I know the Church is true," and other Mormon muddles".
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