Philosopher; U.S. Commissioner of Education
Sterling M. McMurrin
1914–1996
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Philosopher; U.S. Commissioner of Education
McMurrin was the most conspicuous Latter-day Saint intellectual of his generation and the one the hierarchy could not touch, because David O. McKay had personally protected him from excommunication. The Seventh East Press interview in which he denied belief in the First Vision and an ancient Book of Mormon, published 11 January 1983, precipitated the paper's ban at BYU and stands as the opening of the modern conflict.
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The Seventh East Press publishes the McMurrin interviewhinge
The independent BYU student weekly ran Blake Ostler's interview with philosopher Sterling M. McMurrin, in which McMurrin expressed disbelief in the First Vision and in ancient origins for the Book of Mormon, and called the title of Packer's address 'a betrayal of a very important Mormon idea, that the mantle and the intellect should not be set over against each other.'
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An Interview with Sterling McMurrin
Blake Ostler and Sterling M. McMurrin
McMurrin's own words on the First Vision, the Book of Mormon and Packer's address — the text whose publication got the Seventh East Press banned.
Newell G. Bringhurst; Sterling M. McMurrin
Abel's biography and the retroactive rewriting of it; and, from the man who brokered it, how the 1963 civil rights statement came about.
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