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  <name><![CDATA[Truman G. Madsen]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Truman G. Madsen is a philosopher, essayist, teacher and biographer. He is emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, and was Director of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies in Jerusalem. He held the Richard L. Evans Chair in Religious Studies at B.Y.U. He has been guest professor at Northeastern University, Haifa, and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He sponsored several symposia on comparative religion published as Reflections on Mormonism, The Temple in Antiquity, and Chosenness and Covenant in Judaism and Mormonism. Among his volumes on Mormon thought are: Eternal Man, Christ and the Inner Life, Four Essays on Love, The Highest in Us, The Radiant Life. Five Classics, Joseph Smith, the Prophet., Defender of the Faith, a biography of B. H. Roberts and On Human Nature. He is one of the editors and a contributor to the five-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Mormonism. He is married to Ann Nicholls Madsen. The couple has three children and a Navajo foster son.]]></about>        <born_at>12/13/1926</born_at>  <died_at>05/28/2009</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Joseph Smith the Prophet]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Temple: Where Heaven Meets Earth]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Presidents Of The Church: Insights Into Their Lives And Teachings]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Life and Teachings of the Prophet Joseph]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The highest in us]]></title>
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