Description Lowell Bennion, Sterling Mc Murrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined.
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His books include The Electric Edge of Academe: The Saga of Lucien L.
Jackson Newell has been a professor at the University of Utah since 1974, but took leave to serve as president of Deep Springs College from 1995 to 2004.
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He has won multiple awards for his teaching and has authored eight books, including Barry Goldwater and Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America.
About the Author RObert Alan Goldberg is professor of history and director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.
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.
The lives and work of these three men reveal the tensions between faith and reason, Conscience and obedience.
Obert Tanner, also of the university\'s Philosophy Department, excelled in teaching and business and became especially well known for philanthropy.
He dismissed dogma and doctrine as barriers to a search for moral and spiritual understanding.
Sterling Mc Murrin was distinguished professor of philosophy and history, dean of the graduate school, and former commissioner of education under JFK.
He established multiple community service entities.
Lowell Bennion was founding director of the LDS Institute of Religion and professor of sociology at the University of Utah.
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.
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.
Description Lowell Bennion, Sterling Mc Murrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined
