ABSTRACT
The Jesus–Satan relationship constitutes the leitmotif of dynamic ‘opposition’ that is vital for interpreting LDS christology, faith, ethics, and attitudes to both apostates and the wider Christian world. Pivotal to the intersection of emotion and doctrine within Christianity lies the way Jesus is seen and appropriated. This core complexity informs both the identity of a church and the identities of its constituent members, with Mormonism being distinctive as a community, almost an ‘ethnic group’ at certain times and places, but also being a world-wide church. Accordingly, Borella emphasizes the human will as set to engage with the divine in the development of a spirituality or habitus unconstrained by a belief in human nature as hopelessly fallen. This chapter concludes study of the relationship between Jesus, Satan and Joseph by reconsidering the idea of ‘opposition’, the notion of ‘otherness’ that frames all oppositions, and the integrative domain of sacrificial spirituality.
