“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
October 24, 2018Dialogue 49.1 (Spring 2016): 1–26
Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both his most radical theologizing and his hopes for Church comity itself.