293: Terryl Givens - An Approach to Thoughtful, Honest and Faithful Mormonism Pt. 5

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 September 2011

⏱️ 75 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	So let's tackle polygamy.
0:32.6	How much you tackled polygamy and I'll listen.
0:35.6	No, no, no, I mean, so the biggest, the most, like, okay, the fact that God may have told
0:42.6	Joseph that he could have multiple wives, you know, I guess a believing Christian would
0:50.6	have to square that with the Old Testament, with the fact that it was allowed, right?
0:55.6	So I mean, you know, you could kind of take that step and go, well, that's a little bit
1:00.6	weird, but okay, you know, God's done some weird things before.
1:04.6	But the fact that Joseph lied about it, that he didn't tell Emma about it, the fact that
1:12.6	he didn't start with a revelation in 1830 that he told everyone and then lived it openly
1:20.6	and, you know, honestly, the fact that, again, he was hiding it.
1:26.6	The fact that, and this is just bizarre, the fact that Oliver Calder apparently finds out
1:30.6	about Fannie Alger in, I don't know, 1838 or whatever it was, calls it an affair and the
1:37.6	Joseph doesn't even bother to say, hey, what, I got a revelation.
1:42.6	Well, we don't know what he said.
1:44.6	I mean, those conversations were presumably private.
1:46.6	You know, was it he explained what had happened to Oliver Calder's satisfaction?
1:50.6	He did?
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