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« Reply #75 on: October 25, 2004, 06:39:15 AM »

Under the strictest definition of the term, yes the Church would be considered Protestant.  Considering the term is actually "...a member or adherent of any denomination of the Western Christian church that rejects papal authority..."  Even that, with the words "the Western Christian church," could most certainly be interpreted as the Catholic Church alone.  Which the LDS Church did not derive in any way from the Catholic Church.


So, Protestant Churches are usually considered to be those that came straight from the Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries.  In that case, the LDS Church is not Protestant.


You'd have extend that into the 18th Century.  Methodists were not a separate denomination until the late 1700's.  Methodists are generally considered Protestants, though their "roots" are in the Anglican Church.

My opinion (notice I said opinion) is that Protestants either protested against Papal authority in the 16th or 17th century, or splintered off from one of those groups in a later century.  The Methodists fit this description, as does the Christian Church/Church of Christ denomination.  This group began in the early 19th century, similar to the time the Mormons began.  But no one is going to force the Mormons or any one else to claim that they are Protestant if they don't prefer the term themselves.
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