Senior research fellow at Brigham Young University
Terryl Givens
Terryl Givens in 2018
Born
Terryl Lynn Givens
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
James A. Bostwick Professor of English and Religion, University of Richmond[1]
Spouse
Fiona Givens[1]
Website
TerrylGivens.com
Terryl Lynn Givens is a senior research fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University (BYU).[2] Until 2019, he was a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond, where he held the James A. Bostwick Chair in English.
Givens is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As a young man, he served a mission in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and later graduated from BYU with a degree in comparative literature. He did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and earned a PhD in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina, working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English languages and literature.[3] A longtime collaborator with his wife, Fiona Givens, he is the co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life and Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith.[4]
The New York Times referred to his work as "polemical" and "provocative"[5] while Harper's praised him for being "fair-minded and unbiased."[6]
^ ab"Prominent Author Fiona Givens To Be Keynote Speaker At The Sunstone Education Foundation's Christ Conference December 29, 2012". Prweb.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
^"Terryl Givens". Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
^Toone, Trent (2012-11-15). "Scholars Terryl and Fiona Givens discuss life, love and their new book". Deseret News. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
^Goodstein, Laurie (2013-07-20). "Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
^Bobrick, Benson: The Gospel According to Joseph Smith, page 2. The New York Times, August 18, 2002. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E0D8163AF93BA2575BC0A9649C8B63
^Davenport, Guy: By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion (Subject of Review). Harpers, July 2002. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/ByTheHandOfMormonTheAmericanScriptureThatLaunchedANewWorldReligionBook/SubjectOf/Review
Terryl Lynn Givens is a senior research fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University (BYU). Until 2019...
(2012-11-15). "Scholars Terryl and Fiona Givens discuss life, love and their new book". Deseret News. Retrieved 2019-07-31. Fiona Givens Official Website...
taken captive by the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE. Mormon historian TerrylGivens calls the work "an inelegant blend of history, excerpts, exhortation...
Sunstone. Givens, Terryl (2002). By the Hand of Mormon: The American scripture that launched a new world religion. Oxford University Press. Givens, Terryl L....
audiences. Moreover, scholar TerrylGivens argued that Saints and Soldiers can be interpreted specifically or universally. Givens claimed that the screenwriting...
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the book in private devotions and family worship. Literary scholar TerrylGivens observes that for Latter-day Saints, the Book of Mormon is "the principal...
"Author and Proprietor" appeared in place of "translator". According to TerrylGivens, Joseph invited the Eight "to a family prayer spot in the woods" and...
indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Professor of literature TerrylGivens noted that the film doesn't mention Groberg's faith or explain why he...
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stories about "The People", was raised in an LDS family. According to TerrylGivens, science fiction works by Mormons commonly explore ideas "at the margins...
early-to-mid-1830s Smith viewed God the Father as a spirit. However, TerrylGivens and Brian Hauglid argue that although Smith sometimes spoke of God using...
Revolution Gil Troy 3 December 2009 history – U.S. 219 The Book of Mormon TerrylGivens 21 January 2010 Religion 220 Islamic History Adam J. Silverstein 21...
doctrines in order to obtain more effective dialogue with other Christians. TerrylGivens, a Mormon theologian, has rejected such claims, asserting instead that...
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"the corpus is not large enough to render decipherment feasible." TerrylGivens has suggested that the characters are early examples of Egyptian symbols...
did, however, prove to be popular among Latter-day Saint audiences. TerrylGivens, associate professor of English, attributes this success to the desire...
of the prophets, and demonstrates the larger influence of genealogy. TerrylGivens claims that Omni wrote in a manner that suggests he believed the Nephites...
Wrestling, Martial Arts and Film, Television and Stage Personalities TerrylGivens, author Betsy Brannon Green, author Shannon Hale, author, Newbery Honor...
the book became one of the best-known examples of a Mormon novel. TerrylGivens wrote that it is "perhaps the fullest cultural expression of the Mormon...
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the ancient Americas, and establish a society of what literary critic TerrylGivens calls "pre-Christian Christians." Over time, the Nephites industrialize...
Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) reject the anachronism. LDS Church scholar TerrylGivens argues that because Book of Mormon prophets were shown by Jesus Christ...
(2009), and co-authored a biography of Parley P. Pratt (2011), with TerrylGivens. He formerly directed the Center for Communal Studies housed at the...
view this as "quality liberal thinking on controversial LDS topics." TerrylGivens states that the publisher is "the main vehicle for publications that...
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