658: Dr. Greg Prince Pt. 1 - Early Years, Developing a Cure for RSV

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Greg Prince is best known within Mormonism as the author of three books:

- Power from on High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood
- David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
- Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History

In this three-part series we discuss the following:

- Part 1: Greg's early years as a Mormon in the Los Angeles area, his graduate work as a dentist and as a pathologist, and his role in developing a cure for RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection), which has saved tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of infant lives.

- Part 2: Greg discusses the challenges of raising a son (Madison) with autism, then discusses how he developed a gospel framework that allowed him to avoid a faith crisis, which led to his entree into Mormon history authorship. We focus on his Priesthood book.

- Part 3: Greg goes deep into how he maintains faith/belief and activity in God/Christ/the LDS Church as a scientist, and after knowing so much troubling LDS history. He also lays out in detail his nuanced LDS testimony.

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0:27.6	You are welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:32.3	I'm your host John DeLin.
0:34.0	It's September 29th, 2016.
0:36.3	My daughter's birthday.
0:38.2	And we're here in Salt Lake City downtown.
0:40.6	Very, very excited to have with us someone who will be familiar to our Mormon Stories audience.
0:47.0	His name is Dr. Greg Prince.
0:49.4	He actually was the first person I ever interviewed for Mormon Stories Podcast after my own episode
0:55.4	number one where I gave a little bit of my background.
0:58.1	We interviewed Greg because he had just come out with a new book or was about to come out
1:01.5	with a new book called David O'Make in the Rise of Modern Mormonism.
1:05.9	And that was a really fantastic way to kick off Mormon Stories Podcast.
1:13.4	Since then, Greg's been super busy.
1:16.5	He helps out with dialogue, the Journal of Mormon Thought.
1:21.0	He is an entrepreneur.
1:22.0	We're going to talk about the work that he's done both in dentistry but also in other
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