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Few scholars of the Book of Mormon have read this volume of scripture as closely and rigorously as\u00a0Joseph M. Spencer<\/a>. And of those, none have devoted as much time and effort as he to a\u00a0theological<\/em>\u00a0reading of that sacred text\u2014that is, as Spencer writes, \u201chow it might shape responsible thinking about questions pertaining to the life of religious commitment\u201d (p. 1:173.)<\/p>\n

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