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Although the above decrees — and numerous others — appear in apostle Bruce McConkie’s landmark “Mormon Doctrine,” they are not, as the title suggests, Mormon doctrine. “No one before him, and no one since, has done more to convince the saints that they ought to consecrate their intellectual faculties to the study of scripture,” Spencer says in a June “with Kurt Manwaring. “Whatever faults he may have had, that one success … makes him among the tradition’s most important voices.
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