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3 unusual facts about mainline Protestant


History of Protestantism in the United States

Its member communions include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African-American, Evangelical and historic Peace churches.

Mainline Protestant

The antislavery argument from moral progress, along with the moral progress represented by abolition, established a progressive conception of revelation that was further developed by late-19th-century liberal theologians, including Newman Smyth, Lyman Abbott, and Theodore Munger.

The issue of slavery forced antislavery theologians, including William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and Horace Bushnell, to reconcile what they perceived as contradictory loyalties to the Bible and to antislavery reform.


Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico

The Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico —or Seminario Evangélico de Puerto Rico (SEPR) in Spanish — is a mainline Protestant seminary in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico that offers graduate studies conducive to either a Master of Divinity or a Master of Arts in Religion.


see also

Church of Christ

United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States amalgamated from four congregationalist groups in 1957 (See also Christian Connexion.)

PCK

Presbyterian Church of Korea, a mainline Protestant denomination based in South Korea, which currently has the largest membership of any Presbyterian denomination in the world