Adam S. Miller

ADAM S. MILLER is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He is the author of Badiou, Marion, and St Paul: Immanent Grace (Continuum, 2008), Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (Kofford, 2012), Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Letters to a Young Mormon (Maxwell Institute, 2014). He also serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.

Articles

“Take No Thought”

You’re going to miss it. You’re distracted. Sit up straight. You’re not paying attention.

God does not come and go—your attention does.

All sins are just variations on that same desire to do something else when you’re already doing something. Multitaskers are children of the devil. You can’t serve two masters. Divided attention is just dressed-up inattention.

Recompense

George Handley’s Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River practices theology the way a doctor practices CPR—not as a secondhand theory but as a chest-cracking, lung-inflating, life-saving intervention. The book models what, on my account, good theology ought to do: It is experimental, it is grounded in the details of lived experience, and it takes charity—that pure love of Christ— as the only real justification for its having been written. It is not afraid to guess, it is not afraid to question, it is not afraid to cry repentance, and it is not afraid to speak in its own name.

The God Who Weeps: Notes, Amens, and Disagreements | Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

The God Who Weeps is a different kind of book. It’s devotional in spirit but academic in pedigree. It’s published by Deseret Book but under its Ensign Peak imprint. It’s an aggressively expansive book that,…

Dialogue Lectures #18 w/ Adam Miller

The 18th Dialogue podcast features Professor Adam S. Miller who spoke on his recent book, Letters to a Young Mormon, published by BYU’s Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at the recent Miller Eccles lecture. Read more

Dialogue Book of Mormon Gospel Study with Adam Miller on Mosiah 11–17

We are thrilled to have Adam Miller teach the Dialogue Sunday Gospel Study on Mosiah 11-17 from the “Come Follow Me” manual. Read more