Sterling M. McMurrin

STERLING M. MCMURRIN is E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and author of The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion.

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On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class

Brigham H. Roberts: Notes on a Mormon Philosopher-Historian

Although the fundamentals of Mormon thought were quite firmly established in the Church’s first generation, it was the second generation which pulled the philosophical and theological strands together. It was the intellectual leaders of this…

President David O. McKay: 1873-1970: Reflections on the Ministry of President David O. McKay

It is not difficult to identify the large difference that President McKay has made in the character and historical movement of the Church. I refer to the obvious fact that especially during the period of…

A Note on the 1963 Civil Rights Statement

On the Tuesday before the 1963 October General Conference, Mr. Stephen Holbrook called on me at the University to tell me that the local NAACP was planning a civil rights demonstration sometime during the coming…

A New Climate of Liberation: A Tribute to Fawn McKay Brodie, 1915-1981

I am honored by the invitation to write a tribute to Fawn McKay Brodie. Professor Brodie was no doubt the most widely known and read of all Mormon writers, a historian of distinction whose work…

To Sustain the Heart | Paul M. Edwards, Preface to Faith: A Philosophical Inquiry into RLDS Beliefs

Paul Edwards is a man of uncommon talents, generously endowed with wit and wisdom, who possesses his share of good sense and good will and justifiably enjoys the confidence and esteem of his colleagues and…

Comments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity

Historical Christianity is a remarkable composite of diverse religious cultures, a mixture that even today, after two millennia, is still mixing, blending things that often will not blend and fusing the unfusible. Sometimes severe, chaste,…

Toward Intellectual Anarchy | Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Encyclopedia of Mormonism provides a great wealth of information on the history and social character of Mormonism and the structure and administration of the LDS church and its institutions, but, on the whole, as…

Remembering B. H. Roberts

In my early years, I had occasional personal contact with B. H. Roberts. He was a friend of both of my grandfathers, and one of his daughters was married to my mother’s brother, with whose…