1st Edition

Contemporary Philosophy and the Latter-day Saint Tradition

Edited By Taylor-Grey Miller, Katharina Paxman Copyright 2026
236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions. This is the first volume to offer an explicitly philosophical treatment of key ideas in the Latter-day Saint tradition. Contemporary philosophy of religion has paid little attention to minority and heterodox traditions like that of the... Read more

List Of Contributors 

Introduction 

Chapter 1: Bare Theism and Latter-day Saint Philosophical Theology Mike Ashfield 

Chapter 2: God an Alien, or an Alien God? Joseph Lawal 

Chapter 3: Is God Subordinate to Law? Derek Christian Haderlie 

Chapter 4: What Kind of Body is Gods? Mark A. Wrathall 

Chapter 5: Joseph Smith and the Specter of Classical Theism Taylor-Grey Miller 

Chapter 6: A Social Contract Theodicy Nathan Rockwood 

Chapter 7: Mormonism, Feminism, and Relational Moral Agency Eliza Wells 

Chapter 8: Authority Without Dominion Ryan W. Davis 

Chapter 9: The Sacred Nature of Shared Feeling: The Centrality of Empathy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition Katharina Paxman 

Chapter 10: Why a Latter-day Saint Might Recite the Nicean Creed Ryan Christensen 

Index 

Biography

Taylor-Grey Miller is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He specializes in metaphysics as well as philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophers Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Ergo, Inquiry, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Thought.  

Katarina Paxman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. She specializes in Early Modern philosophy, particularly David Hume’s theory of the passions and moral psychology. Her work has appeared in a number of Hume anthologies as well as Hume Studies, The Journal of Scottish Philosophy and Res Philosophica.