John Milton's influence on Mormonism 3/30 @ BYU

[hope_for_things]

I'm going to try and attend this event, it sounds really interesting.  There have been some excellent events happening in Utah recently, and this one is free.  If anyone else plans on attending and wants to meet me in person, please send me a private message.  Thanks

https://mi.byu.edu/news-events/03-30-rogers/

GUEST LECTURE—John Rogers, “Latter-Day Milton”

FROM THE MAXWELL INSTITUTE | 30 MAR 2018

Did John Milton’s seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost play a role in the early development of Mormon theology?

Milton’s heretical speculative theology left an indelible imprint on the conceptual and imaginative structures of early Mormon doctrines of Creation, the Fall, and redemption. Past scholars have noted parallels between Paradise Lost and the visionary writings of Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. But Yale University professor of English John Rogers believes some of the most exciting Miltonic contributions to Mormon speculative theology emerged in the years just after Smith’s death in the work of Parley P. Pratt and Orson Pratt.

WHERE

JFSB—Education in Zion Theater

[Robert F. Smith]

At 3 pm.

[hope_for_things]

1 minute ago, Robert F. Smith said:

At 3 pm.

Yes, thanks for that.  I couldn't see if it said how long the lecture would be, did you find that anywhere?  I'm guessing 2-3 hrs, but I don't know.  

[Robert F. Smith]

Actually, John Milton is heir to a long tradition about Satan, which comes down from the times of the Canaanites at least, and probably even earlier.  See my “Śaṭan: Notes on the Gods,” 2012 (version 2), online at https://www.scribd.com/doc/58985133/Satan-Notes-on-the-Gods .

[Robert F. Smith]

3 minutes ago, hope_for_things said:

Yes, thanks for that.  I couldn't see if it said how long the lecture would be, did you find that anywhere?  I'm guessing 2-3 hrs, but I don't know.  

Probably one hour, with a Q&A.