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Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion
Contributor(s): Goldberg, Robert Alan (Author), Newell, L. Jackson (Author), Newell, Linda King (Author)
ISBN: 1607816040     ISBN-13: 9781607816041
Publisher: University of Utah Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.75  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon)
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
Dewey: 289.309
LCCN: 2017040686
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds
 
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Publisher Description:
Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined. All professors at the University of Utah, these three scholars addressed issues and events of their time; each influenced the thought and culture of Mormonism, helping to institute a period of intellectual life and social activism. In Conscience and Community multiple scholars, family members, and others look at the private and public aspects of three lives and examine the roles they played in shaping their communities inside and out of their university and church.

Lowell Bennion was founding director of the LDS Institute of Religion and professor of sociology at the University of Utah. He established multiple community service entities. Sterling McMurrin was distinguished professor of philosophy and history, dean of the graduate school, and former commissioner of education under JFK. He dismissed dogma and doctrine as barriers to a search for moral and spiritual understanding. Obert Tanner, also of the university's Philosophy Department, excelled in teaching and business and became especially well known for philanthropy. The lives and work of these three men reveal the tensions between faith and reason, conscience and obedience. Their stories speak to us today because their concerns remain our concerns: racial justice, women's equality, gay rights, and the meaning of integrity and conscience.