Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion

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Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives continuously intertwined. All professors at the University of Utah, these three scholars addressed issues and events of their time; each and every influenced the thought and culture of Mormonism, helping to institute a period of intellectual life and social activism. In Conscience and Community more than one scholars, members of the family, and others have a look at the private and public aspects of three lives and examine the roles they played in shaping their communities in and out of their university and church.
 
Lowell Bennion was once founding director of the LDS Institute of Religion and professor of sociology at the University of Utah. He established more than one community service entities. Sterling McMurrin was once 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 seek for moral and religious 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, judgment of right and wrong 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 judgment of right and wrong. 

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