Christ as Healer – Webinar with Terryl Givens

How do the history of biblical translation and a few interpretive aids open new possibilities for understanding Christ’s role in our lives, and key terms like salvation and repentance? Enjoy this webinar with gospel scholar Terryl Givens.

Biography:

Terryl Lynn Givens is a senior research fellow with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He was professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond, where he held the James A. Bostwick Chair in English. He taught courses in nineteenth-century studies and literary theory. He is best known, however, for his publications on Latter-day Saint history, culture, and theology, most of which he has published with the prestigious Oxford University Press. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Givens was born in upstate New York in 1957, but was reared in Arizona and Virginia. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ in Brazil. He earned his bachelor’s degree in comparative literature at Brigham Young University and did graduate work at Cornell. He received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He started writing books when his father, a book collector, challenged him to explore what he thought were the unusual depictions of Mormonism in the nineteenth century. His research led him to write Viper on the Hearth. Generally, his research emphasizes the intersection of literary and religious studies, and more recently, religious themes across time and the western religious and philosophical traditions. He has written numerous articles and papers and has edited two volumes—Joseph Smith, Jr.: Reappraisals After Two Centuries and The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States—with Reid L. Neilson and The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism with Philip L. Barlow).

In 1997, he received the Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond, and in 2002 he was named the BYU College of Humanities Honored Alumnus.

Givens and his wife, Fiona, have six children. She has collaborated with him on several books.