Item Detail
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18144
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English
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The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2007
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40
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no.3
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68-84
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Though Joseph Smith seemed partial to Methodism, it was, according to Matsko, Presbyterianism that most influenced Smith¿s faith and the Church he founded. Upon returning from the first vision he told his mother that he had learned, not that all Christian sects were false, but simply that Presbyterianism (or Calvinism) was "not true." Matsko examines some of the beliefs of one of Palmyra's Presbyterian ministers, and then states that the reason this faith influenced Joseph so much was not due to "the early hostility of its members nor Smith's possible later reflection of its formal sermonizing" but rather because it "was a fully developed theological system against which Smith could react."
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