Joseph M. Spencer's most recent book (unless he has done another in the few weeks since this one was published) is For Zion: A Mormon Theology of Hope (Kofford Books, 2015; 157 pages, with index).
I go back a long way with Joe, back to when he was still a recently-returned Mormon missionary and still an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. Not yet married, I think. I remember him partly because the Hegel class he was in was so small, two people enrolled with a third visitor each week from a nearby university. But I remember Joe mostly because of the incredibly imaginative and interesting readings he gave of Hegel.
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