Fiona Givens

Co-author, with Terryl Givens, of The Crucible of Doubt — the Latter-day Saint book on doubt and faith that Kyle reads alongside a sustained tension about creeds, certainty, and how Mormon thought handles disagreement. In the wiki she appears as one half of the authorial pair (“the Givens’s book on doubt-and-faith”), credited in the book’s frontmatter and grouped with Terryl as co-author. The book’s themes Kyle tracks include the science-and-religion intersection (Dyson, Rees, the anthropic principle) and figures like Joseph Smith, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Russell M. Nelson.

Context: Fiona Givens is a Latter-day Saint author and independent scholar who has co-written several books with her husband Terryl Givens, including The God Who Weeps and The Crucible of Doubt, focused on faith, doubt, and theology within Mormonism.

Where this appears

• The Crucible of Doubt — co-author (with Terryl Givens) of the book on doubt and faith; credited throughout as half of the writing pair.