Truman G. Madsen (born in 1926,died 2009) was a philosopher, essayist, teacher, biographer, and a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church). He was married to Ann Nicholls Madsen in 1953, and they had three children and a Navajo foster son. He was 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.