Smith-Pettit Lecture - The History of Heaven and Hell

Описание: Smith-Pettit Lecture at 7:00 pm MDT July 29th, 2020 presented Bart D. Ehrman "The History of Heaven and Hell" via a Sunstone Digital Symposium sponsored by Sunstone Education Foundation. Lindsay H. Park opens with an introduction while Karin F. Peter moderates the lecture. The lecture includes references to Bart's book "Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife." The Smith-Pettit lecture is free and open to the public, thanks to a generous grant from the Smith-Pettit foundation.

The program is discussed on Bart Ehrman's Foundation Blog: https://ehrmanblog.org/?p=21069

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.

Karin Franklin Peter is president of the Fifth Quorum of Seventy and serves on the Council of Presidents of Seventy with the Community of Christ. This is a branch of "Mormons" that split from the LDS over polygamy in the 19th century. She received a bachelor of science in psychology and a master of arts in Christian ministry from Community of Christ Seminary at Graceland University, Independence, Missouri.

Lindsay Hansen Park, is an American Mormon feminist blogger, podcaster, and the Executive Director for the Salt Lake City-based non-profit Sunstone Education Foundation.

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