The word
"Protestant" refers to a person who follows a form of Christianity that emerged in the 16th century as a protest against the practices and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church.
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But it is, I think, not too strong a term to characterize worship in many
Protestant churches in this country.
I seem to see something like that
in Protestant denominations, too.
Recent studies suggest that most
mainline Protestant churches have become the last stop for youth on their way out of church.
I find it funny that this is your «flaw»
for Protestant theology — some random comments about how the major reformers probably had mental issues.
We must admit that it has only rarely been fully realized
by Protestant churches in the course of their history.
They may not have much identity of content, but a formal kinship exists that could lead to some levels of theological dialogue not made possible by other forms of
Protestant theology.
Despite this, the city remains a prominent center for
conservative Protestant Christian seminars and influential churches.
The structure of programs in
most Protestant congregations has changed very little since the early Victorian period.
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Protestant Christian ethics have made the category of vocation central for an understanding of the Christian life.
In a survey of ministers
from Protestant churches one third had attempted spiritual healing in some form.
On perhaps the most controversial matter, nothing changed among
Protestant pastors between 2013 and 2014.
Even so, it is true that many
Protestant reformers considered the right balance of the relations between church and state to be of first importance in....
Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old
Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.
Which makes his position self - contradictory,
not Protestant, and not very Evangelical either.
If, in order to survive, they transform themselves into the patterns successfully developed by
other Protestant movements, then the answer is No.
There's lots of talk of irresponsible spending, with stereotypes of a lazy sun - washed culture compared to the famed German
Protestant work ethic.
Indeed, nearly three - quarters of the
white Protestant congregations we studied reported that half or more of their members grew up in another denomination.
Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of
Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.
There isn't one standard for the Roman Catholic hierarchy and a different one for African - American
Protestant clergy.
The university's liberal
Protestant leaders supported this national economic purpose not only by virtue of their class location but also as an extension of their religious hopes.
Despite this remarkable growth in recent years, scholars, the media and mainstream church leaders have largely ignored the nation's 12th -
largest Protestant denomination.
The institute bears special significance for being one of the few
Protestant establishments in a predominantly Catholic country.
This group would include most Catholic, Jewish and
mainstream Protestant traditions, few of them aggressive.
Within this well - defined American
Protestant community there are, as might be expected, various dynamic trends — intellectual and social trends, ethical trends and theological.
And evangelical
Protestant schools are found to perform at a similar level to public schools in math but at a higher level in reading.
One implication of this long - standing
Protestant view of a harmonious division of labor between science and religion was that it encouraged narrow technical investigation as the model for every field.
That question would have been out of order if she had excluded her evangelical
Protestant faith from her presidential campaign.
One of the impulses was the issue
about Protestant school exercises in the public schools.
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This once vital tradition was more effective
when Protestant values were more dominant in American culture than they are now.