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/ˈpɹɑtəstənˌtɪzəm/
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- the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
How To Use Protestantism In A Sentence
- Later Protestantism favoured liberty of conscience.
- We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
- In our interpretation of chapter 14 we showed that the angel clearly applied the term Babylon to the worshipers of the second beast -- Protestantism -- as well as to those of the first beast. The Last Reformation
- Modern day Christianity and Protestantism is very different, such is why they "denominate" to something different. Undefined
- The extirpation of Protestantism was another favourite object of Austrian policy: and the cruelties perpetrated with this view by George Basta and the other imperial generals at the beginning of the century was such, that a general rising took place under Stephen Boczkai, then waiwode of Transylvania, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- The division between the two great branches of the Christian Church, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, no longer seems unbridgeable.
- In that sense, Wilson takes a more hardheadedly political approach to the topic than Ellison: where Wilson makes Catholicism's spiritual failings part and parcel of the openly political challenge it poses to the nation, Ellison emphasizes the really-existing unity between Catholicism and the CofE, and focuses on Protestantism's negative moral effects. Academic
- Edward VI's accession to the throne meant greater support for Protestantism throughout the country, and imprisonment for Gardiner.
- The protest that gave Protestantism its name was against display, against the staginess of the Catholic Church, and its aversion to theatrics applies equally to money: better to appear less wealthy than you are and keep putting in the hours. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
- The opposition of those Protestants who are closest to the spirit of primitive Protestantism rests, as we have said, on the fear that whatever is conceded to the authority of the Church detracts correspondingly from the authority of the Word of God in the Bible. Scripture