The Divine Individual – A Belief Shared by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Walt Whitman
Irreantum
9
2
Orem, UT
Association for Mormon Letters
2007
91-99
LDS theology asserts that humans have the potential to become like God. This belief was also shared by the transcendentalist poet Walt Whitman. This essay compares themes in Walt Whitman's work with teachings from LDS theology.