Mormonism and Moral Life

The debates over the historical origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have diverted attention away from the important question Campbell takes up in this important book: What is it about Latter-day Saint teaching and practice that create a unique Christian community with an outsized influence in 21st century America? Campbell’s answers are intriguing and, from the perspective of this Latter-day Saint, spot on. – Judge Thomas B. Griffith * (ret.) U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit *This book addresses a topic that is both foundational to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been neglected in modern scholarship. Campbell has produced a valuable resource for students and scholars hoping to explore the contours of moral life as understood and practiced in the LDS tradition. – Daniel Becerra * Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University *

Courtney S. Campbell is Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture and the Director of the Program in Medical Humanities at Oregon State University, where he teaches biomedical ethics, death and dying, non-violence and just war, religious liberty, and religious ethics. He is the author of Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics and Bearing Witness: Religious Meanings in Bioethics, and the editor of What Price Parenthood? Ethics and Assisted Reproduction. He also is a fellow of The Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank.