291: Terryl Givens - An Approach to Thoughtful, Honest and Faithful Mormonism Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 September 2011

⏱️ 45 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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0:28.6	Okay, so that's a version of the atonement that I can intellectually kind of at least feel
0:38.2	better about or at least not feel any aversive thoughts or feelings about.
0:42.6	How about all these recent attempts to kind of analyze the Bible and especially the
0:52.6	New Testament?
0:54.6	Specifically, I'm talking about like let's just say Bart Irman's work, you know, where
0:59.4	you realize that it wasn't Matthew James and Matthew Mark Luke and John that actually
1:04.2	wrote Matthew Mark Luke and John that in many cases those stories were handed down through
1:08.8	oral tradition that we don't even know who wrote which of the books and in what order.
1:14.5	The fact that they if you really do take each of those books at face value, they tell in
1:21.0	some cases dramatically different stories and so it's just confusing and contradictory.
1:28.9	And you know, some people just say that the Bible just, you know, especially the New
1:33.8	Testament just falls apart once you understand its historical origins.
1:39.2	Have you read that stuff and if so and what way do you piece it back together?
1:44.8	Yeah, I've read Bart Irman and I've read some of his, I guess, detractors and his opponents
1:53.2	in some of these debates.
1:55.7	Let me just start with a little bit of history to try to frame I think how we got to where
2:00.8	we are in Mormonism and our attitudes toward the Scriptures towards the Bible.
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