Terryl Givens, Date of Birth

Terryl Givens

American academic

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1957

Profession: historian, theologian, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Terryl Lynn Givens is a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond, where he holds the James A.
Bostwick Chair in English.
He is a visiting fellow at the Neal A.
Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University (BYU).Givens is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
As a young man, he served a mission in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and later graduated from BYU with a degree in comparative literature.
He did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and a comparative literature PhD at the University of North Carolina, working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English languages and literature.
A longtime collaborator with his wife, Fiona Givens, he is the co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life and Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith.The New York Times referred to his work as "polemical" and "provocative" whereas Harper's praised him for being "fair-minded and unbiased."