Volume 49, No. 1
Spring 2016
The Spring 2016 issue begins with an article by Fiona Givens on the collaborative nature of Joseph Smith's theology, Melvin Bashore expands on the Mountain Meadows Massacre in "Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America's Worst Emigrant Massacre." Also included are several poems, an insightful catholic-mormon dialogue, and a new voice in Christinah Cross and her take on baptism.
Contents
Articles/Essays
“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making
Fiona GivensDialogue 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.
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Editor's Note
Fiction
The Trail
Stephen CarterThe world was divided into three. Three shards of sagebrush and sky. That’s how it looked to Emma as she blinked through the thick wooden wagon spokes next to her head. She winced at the…
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