659: Dr. Greg Prince Pt. 2 - On Autism, Mormon History, and LDS Priesthood

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 84 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	Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of my second interview with Greg Prince, author
0:36.6	of Leonard Arenton and the writing of Mormon History, also the author of David O. McKay
0:41.8	and the Rise of Modern Mormonism and another book that we'll talk about regarding the priesthood
0:47.7	restoration.
0:49.8	In part one, we talked about Greg's childhood growing up in LA area.
0:55.1	We talked about him falling in love with science and going to dental school and eventually
0:59.8	getting a PhD in immunology.
1:02.5	Pathology.
1:03.5	Pathology.
1:04.5	And eventually how he worked in Maryland with the NIH and others to develop a cure for RSV,
1:13.2	a fatal respiratory illness in infants and as a fascinating story and something that people
1:19.4	don't know about Greg.
1:21.8	So in this part we're going to turn to sort of how we got interested in writing Mormon
1:28.6	history and also we're going to talk about his book before we, in part three, talk about
1:37.8	where the church is today.
1:40.2	Before we jump into all that, why don't you talk briefly, let's see, do we talk about
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