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24 unusual facts about protestantism


Allied Kommandatura

The number of agreements at the Allied Kommandatura exceeds 1,200 and even includes agreed loans to Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish churches.

And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

The leaders represent several of the Earth's major religions - Jewish, Protestant Christian, Buddhist, etc.

Antoine Duprat

Duprat's influence was also manifested, together with his orthodoxy, in those measures which affected the relations of France with the Church, namely, the signing of the Concordat of Bologna, and the checking of nascent Protestantism.

Artistic inspiration

At the same time, he satirized "inspired" radical Protestant ministers who preached through "direct inspiration." In his prefatory materials, he describes the ideal dissenter's pulpit as a barrel with a tube running from the minister's posterior to a set of bellows at the bottom, whereby the minister could be inflated to such an extent that he could shout out his inspiration to the congregation.

Austria–Chile relations

In the 19th century, famines in Europe and the expulsion of Protestants from Austria led to waves of Austrian immigration to Latin America.

Christianity in Panama

Like the rest of Latin America, the Catholicism of the conquest began to shift as aspects of indigenous, African and other spiritualities were acculturated In recent decades, however, Protestantism, especially those denominations strongest in North America, has been gaining ground.

Conrad Schick

Conrad Schick (1822–1901) was a German architect, archaeologist and Protestant missionary who settled in Jerusalem in the mid-nineteenth century.

Crypto-protestantism

It describes the attempt made after the Protestant Reformation to regain for Catholicism parts of the Empire that had become Protestant.

Daniel Hutchinson

Daniel Hutchinson (fl. 1650s) was a wealthy Protestant Dublin merchant who supported the Cromwellian Occupation of Ireland.

Daria Khaltourina

Khaltourina and her colleagues have demonstrated that Protestantism has indeed influenced positively the capitalist development of respective social systems not so much through the "Protestant ethics" (as was suggested by Max Weber) but rather through the promotion of literacy.

Frank Tanana

He converted to Protestantism midway through his career and became a leader in the Christian community within professional baseball.

Guillaume Desautels

The Catholic knights won the field and thus saved Cluny, which had been (until St. Peter's in Rome just recently built) the greatest church in Western Christendom from the hands of the Protestants — only to be destroyed 200 years later by the republican mobs of the French Revolution.

Historicism

In Christianity, the term historicism refers to the confessional Protestant form of prophetical interpretation which holds that the fulfillment of biblical prophecy has taken place throughout history and continues to take place today; as opposed to other methods which limit the time-frame of prophecy-fulfillment to the past or to the future.

Holy Roman Emperor

It remained so until 1648, when the settlement of the Thirty Years' War required the addition of a new elector to maintain the precarious balance between Protestant and Catholic factions in the Empire.

Isabella Cervoni

This is evident in her canzoni dedicated to Henry IV of France and Pope Clement VIII in 1597, both of which celebrated the French king's conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism.

Johannes Hermanus Michiel Kock

He was very involved with church affairs and was largely responsible for the adoption of policies that protestant ministers be paid from state funds.

Lambeth Articles

This reluctance to change her Settlement or increase the influence of radical Protestantism or Puritanism can be seen in her treatment of William Strickland when he introduced a reform bill to Parliament in 1571.

Laurence Clarkson

He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical Protestants known as the Ranters.

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

By 1900, Coteau-Saint-Louis had become very cosmopolitan, and counted several Protestant churches and synagogues.

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

His stay in Germany brought him close to Protestantism but he later became an ardent Catholic and his religious devotion is reflected in his poems.

Pope Pius IX and Judaism

Judaism and Catholicism were the only religions allowed by law (Protestant worship was allowed to visiting foreigners, but forbidden to Italians).

Ruth Frances Woodsmall

In 1930 Woodsmall participated in the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry, an independent ecumenical project of the Protestant churches to assess missionaries' record in converting non-western populations.

The Shadow of a Gunman

Adolphus Grigson - an alcoholic resident of the tenement; a self-proclaimed "Orangeman", Grigson's Protestantism exemplified by his Bible and his picture of King William triumphant at the Battle of the Boyne hanging on the wall doesn't exempt him from being harassed by the Black and Tans.

Xavier Vallat

He was also anti-Protestant and anti-Masonic, arguing that Jews, Protestants and Masons were all part of a plot against Catholic France.


August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer

In 1840 he was appointed pastor at Lamspringe, near Hildesheim; in 1851, superintendent at Catlenburg; and in 1855, consistorial councilor and superintendent at Buer, and member of the ecclesiastical court of Osnabrück.

Bernhard Heinrich Overberg

In 1816 he was made a consistorial - and school counsellor, in 1823, honorary rector of the cathedral, and in 1826, shortly before his death, Oberconsistorialrat of the Evangelical Church in Prussia.

Bernhard Stade

Bernhard Stade (May 11, 1848, Arnstadt, Thuringia, – December 6, 1906) was a German Protestant theologian and histortian.

Bílá Voda

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, the later Bishop of Olomouc, established a Piarist college on his inherited Bílá Voda estates in 1723, a response to the 1707 Convention of Altranstädt granting religious freedom to the Silesian Protestants.

Continental Reformed church

This is usually called Synodal government by the continental Reformed, but is essentially the same as Presbyterian polity, with the elders forming the consistory, the regional governing body known as the classis, and the highest court of appeal being the general synod.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660 Nassenhuben – 25 May 1741 Berlin), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

Drübeck

After the monastery became extinct in the Thirty Years' War, the estates were acquired by the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, who established a Protestant congregation of canonesses here in 1732, now a conference centre of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony.

Esther de Berdt

Esther de Berdt was born in London, England, into a family descended of Protestant refugees from Ypres, who had fled the "Spanish Fury" led by the Duke of Alba.

Farmington, Missouri

Many of these religious residents identify as Christians—38.08% are Protestants, 7.65% are Roman Catholics, 5.03% identify with another Christian faith, 0.43% are Mormons, 0.03% belong to an Eastern religion, and 0.01% are Jewish.

Francis Haywood

In 1828 (describing himself as a 'layman of the Church of England', though he was in fact active in Liverpool Unitarian circles) he translated a reply by the theological rationalist Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider to Hugh James Rose's essay on the state of Protestantism in Germany.

Frère Jacques

Francesca Draughon and Raymond Knapp argue that Frère Jacques originally was a song to taunt Jews or Protestants or Martin Luther (see Frère Jacques in popular culture).

Gerhard Kittel

Gerhard Kittel (September 23, 1888, Breslau – July 11, 1948, Tübingen) was a German Protestant theologian, lexicographer of biblical languages, and open anti-Semite.

Gisela C. Lebzelter

: Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era, (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0-88920-288-7, ISBN 978-0-88920-309-9 (pbk.)

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920's and 1930's and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century.

Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer

He studied theology at Jena, was pastor at Harste, Hoya, also serving as superintendent there, and Neustadt am Rübenberge, and eventually became (1841) member of the Hanover Consistory of the Church of Hanover, and superintendent at Hanover.

Henry Fitzsimon

Going to the University of Paris, he became a zealous protagonist of Protestantism, "with the firm intention to have died for it, if need had been".

Henry Scrimgeour

Nonetheless, it was some years before Scrimgeour would openly show his adherence to protestantism, and his second publication was a law book, an edition of the Novellae, printed by Estienne in Geneva in May 1558 and subsidized by Ulrich Fugger, entitled: Impp.

Herbert Deinert

More recently he has helped to understand the influence of Protestantism on Germany directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Huguenot rebellions

His successor Louis XIII, under the regency of his Italian Catholic mother Marie de' Medici, became more intolerant of Protestantism.

John Casimir, Count Palatine of Lautern

Philip Sidney, an ambassador of Queen Elizabeth I of England, convinced John Casimir to begin the formation of a league of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire.

Joseph-Octave Plessis

Efforts were made to appropriate the property of the Jesuits and of the Seminary of Montreal to the uses of the state, to organize an exclusively Protestant system of public instruction, and to give a power of veto on the nomination of priests and the erection of parishes to the English crown.

Karl Fiehler

Amongst other things it was no longer allowed to wear Protestant vestments at a funeral in a Jewish-orthodox graveyard.

Lucas Holstenius

The popes sent him on various honorable missions, such as bearing the cardinal's hat to the nuncio at Warsaw in 1629, and Alexander VII sent him to Innsbruck to receive abjuration of Protestantism by the mercurial and tiresome Christina, former Queen of Sweden.

Manuel Matamoros

For instance there is a card for Rev. William Harris Rule, a Methodist minister who had tried unsuccessfully to introduce Protestantism into Spain twenty years before Matamoros.

Maryland Democratic primary, 2008

Regarding religion, Obama won Protestants by a margin of 51-44 percent, other Christians by a margin of 74-21, other religions by a margin of 61-39, and atheists/agnostics by a margin of 62-37; Clinton won Roman Catholics by a margin of 48-45 and Jews by a margin of 60-40 percent.

Matins

Lutherans preserve recognizably traditional Matins distinct from Morning Prayer, but "Matins" is sometimes used in other Protestant denominations to describe any morning service.

Milicz

Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707.

Pedro de Soto

Later, for six years, he served as senior chair of theology at the University of Dillingen, where he disputed with Protestants and worked with the Bishop of Augsburg to establish a Catholic academic stronghold.

United Protestant Church of France

The United Protestant Church of France is the main and largest Protestant church in France, created in 2013 through the unification of the Reformed Church of France and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of France.

Vilem Slavata of Chlum

His father Adam had been an administrator of Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who in 1583 had taken up his residence at Prague Castle and had guaranteed freedom of religion to the Protestant Bohemian estates by his Letter of Majesty (Rudolfův Majestát) issued in 1609.

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

The statute disestablished the Church of England in Virginia and guaranteed freedom of religion to people of all religious faiths, including Catholics and Jews as well as members of all Protestant denominations.

Wilhelm Abraham Teller

In 1767 Teller, whose attitude had made his position at Helmstedt intolerable, was glad to accept an invitation from the Prussian minister for ecclesiastical affairs to the post of provost of Cologne, with a seat in the Lutheran Supreme Consistory of Berlin.

William Portman

He followed Day, the Bishop of Chichester, in persuading Sir James Hales to abjure Protestantism in 1554.

Xochistlahuaca

Protestantism was introduced to the region by the Instituto Lingüistico de Verano in the 1940s.

Yangyang County

The county is proud to unite the five major religious influences in South Korea: Confucianism, Buddhism, Shamanism, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

Zeluco

This division between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism can be traced all the way back to the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century, when Martin Luther, among other Protestant leaders, sought to break away from the old customs and rituals of the church in order to make religion more accessible.