{"id":40288,"date":"2017-03-04T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40288"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:46:41","slug":"legacy-truman-g-madsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/03\/legacy-truman-g-madsen.html","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of Truman G. Madsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Dr. Truman G. Madsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He was an enormous formative influence on me.<\/p>\n

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When I was about fourteen or fifteen, some members of my home ward in San Gabriel, California, thinking that I might enjoy BYU Education Week. \u00a0So they invited me to come with them when it was being held in either (I can\u2019t remember exactly) Covina or West Covina. \u00a0On the roster were such lights as Hugh Nibley, Truman Madsen, Daniel Ludlow, and \u2014 believe it or not \u2014 Bruce R. McConkie.<\/p>\n

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Truman gave four nightly lectures. \u00a0Two were on \u201cExistentialism\u201d and \u201cLogical Positivism.\u201d \u00a0I don\u2019t recall the other two titles. \u00a0I sat spellbound. \u00a0I had never before had any real inkling of the potential depth and intellectual fascination of the Restored Gospel. \u00a0I had only recently become really interested in the claims of the Church, having grown up with a non-member father and a marginally active mother and few if any Latter-day Saint friends. \u00a0(Another influence was a recent reading of Nephi Anderson\u2019s novel Added Upon<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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Anyway, had it not been for that invitation to Education Week, I might not, a few years later, have even bothered applying to Brigham Young University. \u00a0And the rest, as they say, is history. \u00a0My entire career of vicious character assassination, mercenary lying, shameless pseudo-scholarship, and mean-spirited rage might never have happened.<\/p>\n

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And I\u2019m grateful to say that Truman and his wife Ann ultimately became friends. \u00a0Great people.<\/p>\n

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There is an interesting website devoted to the life and work of Truman Madsen, whom I really, really miss:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/trumanmadsen.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please explore it a bit.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Monterey, California<\/p>\n

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