Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints a Protestant Sect?

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No, they don't hold common Protestant theologies, nor do they share a common Protestant history. If they're Christians, they're their own branch.

well, the LDS movement unquestionably grew out of the equally-unquestionably protestant Second Great Awakening.  to that extent it is very much a child of a uniquely American protestantism.

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No, they don't hold common Protestant theologies, nor do they share a common Protestant history. If they're Christians, they're their own branch.

well, the LDS movement unquestionably grew out of the equally-unquestionably protestant Second Great Awakening.  to that extent it is very much a child of a uniquely American protestantism.

Yeah, but if by that logic Mormons are Protestants, Protestants are Catholics.

right, I was just pointing out an error in DC's claim..  he may have been better served to say "Reformation History", as I've never seen the LDS look to Calvin or Luther et al as authorities or even great men of the church.  the Great Apostasy doctrine more or less any authorities from the death of the last Nephite in the 500s through Joseph Smith's revelation from Moroni in 1830.

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Heck, if Bishop Spong was a Protestant, how aren't the Mormons?

Spong deviates enough from Episcopalian orthodoxy that it is questionable that he should still be considered Protestant, tho the church he officially belongs to certainly is.

Precisely. If he doesn't believe in the resurrection, he isn't a Christian, much less a Protestant in any meaningful sense of the terms.

metaphorical interpretation of the Resurrection narrative is common among progressive Christians, so you're writing off maybe a fifth or a sixth of American Christians.