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English
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The Young Joseph Smith and Presbyterianism
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New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and crossing boundaries
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Norman, OK
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University of Oklahoma Press
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69-84
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In early-nineteenth-century America, Presbyterians differed from most other Protestant denominations in holding to an elaborately refined theological system dating to the Reformation. If Methodism most impressed the young Joseph Smith, Presbyterianism and its characteristic Calvinist theology also played an influential, if more negative, role in his religious development. When Joseph reported his earliest vision to his mother, he did not tell her that all Christian sects were equally false. He said that "Presbyterianism [was] not true." [excerpt from chapter]