Papers delivered at the Religious Studies Center symposium, Brigham Young University, March 10-11, 1978 (The Religious studies monograph series). This event has been described as "The watershed event of the decade." Introductory essay by Truman G. Madsen.
Truman Grant Madsen was an American professor of religion and philosophy at Brigham Young University (BYU) and director of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. He was a prolific author, a recognized authority on Joseph Smith Jr., and a popular lecturer among Latter-day Saints. At one point, Madsen was an instructor at the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley, California.