290: Terryl Givens - An Approach to Thoughtful, Honest and Faithful Mormonism Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 September 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Terryl Givens did graduate work at Cornell University in Intellectual History and UNC Chapel Hill where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature. He holds the James A. Bostwick chair of English, and is Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in 19th century studies, and the Bible’s influence on western literature. As a commentator on Mormon religion and culture, he has appeared on PBS, NPR, and CNN. Author of ten books, his writing has been praised by the New York Times as “provocative reading,” and includes, most recently, When Souls had Wings, a history of the idea of premortal life in western thought, and a two volume history of Mormon theology underway for Oxford University Press.

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0:30.6	Yeah, I'm not sure you probably listen, listen, but I was able to interview Dr. Michael Coe,
0:37.9	the Yale anthropologist or archaeologist a few weeks back and he's kind of a Mesoamerican
0:43.2	expert and he loves Mormons and he loves Mormonism and he probably knows more about
0:49.5	Mormonism than many Mormons I know, including myself, but he didn't, you know, he had a
0:56.3	view of the Book of Mormon, which, you know, basically from his point of view, he didn't
1:00.9	see a lot of ancient, you know, Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon.
1:05.9	But what he did say is that Joseph Smith was one of the greatest men who ever lived.
1:12.6	Kind of the Harold Bloom position.
1:15.3	Yeah, I thought that was cool, but he, I think he meant it.
1:18.8	Like he set up with a smile on his face, you know, yeah, yeah.
1:22.4	He didn't, he didn't say he's one of the, he said he's not just one of the greatest
1:25.6	religious leaders in America or greatest religious leaders, he's one of the greatest men
1:30.1	who's ever lived.
1:31.1	So I thought that was going to just, if I'm remembering it correctly.
1:35.6	Okay, so I have to jump back and I don't know how to segway this or if there's, if this
1:40.3	is a good point to segway this into the crisis of faith discussion where you, that you may
1:45.9	have had, I don't even know that story, but I was reading in people of paradox something
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