Protestantism

(noun)

Protestantism is one of the major groupings within Christianity. It has been defined as "any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth. " More broadly, it means Christianity outside "of a Catholic or Eastern church. "

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Examples of Protestantism in the following topics:

  • Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

    • Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism had an elective affinity with capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
    • Additionally, Weber observed that both ascetic Protestantism and capitalism encouraged cultural practices that reinforced one another.
    • As evidence for his study, Weber noted that ascetic Protestantism and advanced capitalism tended to coincide with one another.
    • In contrast, Weber showed that certain types of Protestantism, notably Calvinism, supported worldly activities and the rational pursuit of economic gain.
    • Weber saw an elective affinity between capitalism and Protestantism, especially Calvinism.

  • Protestantism

    • Protestantism is one of the major umbrella religions in the U.S., and is constantly evolving in response to political and social changes.
    • Colonists from Northern Europe, primarily from Great Britain, introduced Protestantism to a number of areas, including Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Netherlands, the Virginia colony, the Carolina Colony, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Lower Canada.
    • Evangelicalism in Protestantism is difficult to both date and define.
    • Describe the various sects of Protestantism and four key moments in their history in the U.S., including any resitance to those moments

  • Religious Denominations

    • Christianity has different denominations such as Protestantism and Catholicism, among others.
    • The term describes various Christian denominations (for example, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, and the many varieties of Protestantism).

  • Widespread Belief

    • That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.
    • Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

  • The Christian Church

    • Anglicans generally understand their tradition as a a middle path between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Christianity on one hand, and Protestantism on the other.

  • Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

    • Northern European peoples introduced Protestantism.

  • Islam

    • Islam has similarities with other American-practiced religions, including Protestantism and Christianity.

  • Types of Governments

    • Theocratic tendencies have been found in several religious traditions including Judaism, Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, and among Christianity: Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and Mormonism.

  • Theories of Religion

    • Freedom of religion is consequently weakened when one religion is given rights or privileges denied to others, as in certain European countries where Roman Catholicism or regional forms of Protestantism have special status.

  • Capitalism

    • For Weber, the 'spirit of capitalism' was, in general, that of ascetic Protestantism; this ideology was able to motivate extreme rationalization of daily life, a propensity to accumulate capital by a religious ethic to advance economically, and thus also the propensity to reinvest capital: this was sufficient, then, to create "self-mediating capital" as conceived by Marx.