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| Eric Mount is professor emeritus of religion at Centre College, where he has taught since 1966. He holds the Nelson D. and Mary McDowell Rodes Professorship. He retired from the active faculty in June, 2002.
Mount has taught courses on topics such as ethics and health care, business ethics, and contemporary theology. He has also served as dean of students, college chaplain, and vice president of the college. Twice he and his wife Truly directed Centre's program in Strasbourg, France. A scholar in the field of ethics, Mount is the author of four books: Conscience and Responsibility (John Knox Press 1964 - paperback 1971), The Feminine Factor (John Knox Press 1973), and Professional Ethics in Context: Institutions, Images, and Empathy (Westminster/John Knox 1990), Covenant, Community, and the Common Good (Pilgrim, 1999). Along with his teaching, Mount organized a community ethics discussion group that was held once a month for members of the Danville and Centre community. He is an ordained minister and has been active for 25 years in the Presbyterian Church in Danville. He has also been active in civil rights and race relations in Central Kentucky and received the 1985 John E. Haycraft Award from the NAACP for outstanding contributions to civil rights. Past chair of the Boyle County Human Rights Commission, United Way, and other civic organizations, he currently serves on the Institutional Review Board of Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center and as the chair of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency Board, among others. Mount holds a bachelor of arts degree from Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), a bachelor of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, a master's degree in sacred theology from Yale Divinity School, and a doctorate from Duke University.
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