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English
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Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator
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Urbana, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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"Known in his lifetime for a tireless dedication to humanitarian causes, Lowell L. Bennion was also one of the most important theologians and ethicists to emerge in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the twentieth century. George B. Handley's intellectual biography delves into Bennion's thought and extraordinary intellectual life. Rejecting the idea that individual LDS practice might be at odds with lived experience, Bennion insisted the gospel favored the growth of individuals acting and living in the present. He also focused on the need for ongoing secular learning alongside religious practice and advocated for an idea of social morality that encouraged Latter-day Saints to seek out meaningful transformations of character and put their ethical commitments into practice. Handley examines Bennion's work against the background of a changing institution that once welcomed his commonsense articulation of LDS ideas and values but became discomfited by how his thought cast doubt on the Church's beliefs about race and other issues." [Abstract from back of book]
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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
An Early Resurrection : Life in Christ Before you Die
A Saint for All Seasons
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Conscience and Community : Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion
Do Justly and Love Mercy : Moral Issues for Mormons
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Lowell L. Bennion : Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Planted : Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
The Legacy of Lowell L. Bennion
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormons
The Mormon Way of Doing Business : Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family
The Next Mormons : How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
The Poetics of Prejudice
The religion of the Latter-day Saints
The Swearing Elders : The First Generation of Mormon Intellectuals
'To Be Learned is Good' : Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman
Watchman on the Tower : Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
Women at church : Magnifying LDS women's local impact