In this episode of Culture Shock: Awakening the Humanity in Our World host, Michelle Werner, discusses The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Dr. Terryl Givens.
Terryl Givens’ Website: https://www.terrylgivens.com
Conversations with Terryl Givens: https://faithmatters.org/category/conversations-with-terryl-givens/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng Dr.
Dr. Terryl Givens is a senior research fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Prior he was a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA.
Dr. Givens is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served the Church as a bishop.
He served missions in Brazil, prior to graduating from BYU with a degree in comparative literature.
He later 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.
Publications: All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between (with Fiona Givens), The Christ Who Heals: How God Restored the Truth that Saves Us (with Fiona Givens), Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith (with Fiona Givens), The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life (with Fiona Givens), Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (with Matthew J. Grow), When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture, The Latter-day Saint Experience in America, By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy, Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves, Mimesis and the Limits of Semblance, Blind Men and Hieroglyphs: The Collapse of Mimesis, Aristotle's Critique of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering and the Ethical Sublime, This Great Modern Abomination': Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion, Joseph Smith: Prophecy, Process, and Plenitude, Lightning Out of Heaven': Joseph Smith and the Forging of Community, New Religious Movements and the Orthodoxy: The Challenge to the Religious Mainstream, There Is Room for Both': Mormon Cinema and the Paradoxes of Mormon Culture, Common Sense' Meets the Book of Mormon: Source, Substance and Prophetic Disruption, Joseph Smith's American Bible: Radicalizing the Familiar, Paradox and Discipleship, Fraud, Philandery, and Football: Negotiating the Mormon Image, The Prophecy of Enoch as Restoration Blueprint