Brigham Young University

In Kyle’s notes, Brigham Young University appears as the venue for Truman G. Madsen’s celebrated lecture series on the life and character of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Madsen — an LDS philosopher and BYU professor — delivered the lectures there; the second, Joseph Smith Lecture 2 — Joseph’s Personality and Character, was published August 22, 1978, and is preserved on the BYU Speeches archive (speeches.byu.edu). The university is thus the institutional setting that anchors Madsen’s best-known work in the corpus.

Context: Brigham Young University (BYU), in Provo, Utah, is the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its BYU Speeches archive publishes devotional and academic addresses given on campus.

Where this appears

• Truman G. Madsen — cited as the venue where Madsen delivered and published his Joseph Smith lecture series.