Terryl L. Givens is a scholar, author, professor and podcast host. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at BYU. Terryl was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did graduate work in Intellectual History (Cornell) and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1988), working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English languages and literatures. As Professor of Literature and Religion, and the Jabez A. Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond, he taught courses in Romanticism, nineteenth century cultural studies, and the Bible and Literature. He has published in literary theory, British and European Romanticism, Mormon studies, and intellectual history. The New York Times has praised him for his “provocative writing,” and Harpers has called him “fair-minded, scholarly, and unbiased.”
He has also published, with Fiona Givens, All Things New (Faith Matters Publishing 2020) The Christ Who Heals (Deseret 2017); The Crucible of Doubt (Deseret 2014), and The God Who Weeps (Deseret, 2012). Current projects include The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Beleaguered Scripture (with Brian Hauglid, Oxford 2019); Stretching the Heavens: Eugene England, Mormonism, and the Dilemmas of Discipleship (UNC Press 2021); and What Everyone Needs to Know About Mormonism (Oxford 2020).
Dr. Givens makes his home with Fiona in the village of Midway, Utah.
Experience
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Education
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Books
[resume_book image_url=”https://faithmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/book-the-christ-who-heals.jpg” link=”https://amzn.to/2THpRO1″]The Christ Who Heals, by Terryl and his wife Fiona, has been called one an inspiring devotional with a solid scholarly foundation. It rethinks the way we approach Atonement by inviting us to look more deeply both into the scriptures and into ourselves.[/resume_book]
[resume_book image_url=”https://faithmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/book-the-god-who-weeps.jpg” link=”https://amzn.to/2THpRO1″]The God Who Weeps, by Terryl and his wife Fiona, has been called one an inspiring devotional with a solid scholarly foundation. It rethinks the way we approach Atonement by inviting us to look more deeply both into the scriptures and into ourselves.[/resume_book]