Protestantism

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

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • The First Great Awakening illustrated the evolution of Protestantism in the British colonies.
  • In the colonies, this could be seen in the evolution of Protestantism over the centuries.
  • Individuals could bring about their own salvation by accepting Christ, an especially welcome message for those who had felt excluded by traditional Protestantism—women, the young, and people at the lower end of the social spectrum.

• 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.

• 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).

• Plymouth

  • The Puritans founded Plymouth in order to practice their own brand of Protestantism without interference from England.
  • In their “New” England, they set out to create a model of reformed Protestantism—a new English Israel.

• Conclusion: A Maturing Society

  • A great deal of optimism, fueled by evangelical Protestantism revivalism, underwrote the moral crusades of the first half of the nineteenth century.
  • Evangelical Protestantism pervaded American culture in the antebellum era and fueled a belief in the possibility of changing society for the better.
  • This religious message dovetailed with the new economic possibilities created by the market and Industrial Revolution, making the Protestantism of the Second Great Awakening, with its emphasis on individual spiritual success, a reflection of the individualistic, capitalist spirit of the age.

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • Extreme commitment to champion Catholicism against both Protestantism and Islam shaped both domestic and foreign policies of Philip II, who was the most powerful European monarch in an era of religious conflict.
  • El Escariol was another expression of Philip's commitments to protect Catholics against the raising influence of Protestantism across Europe.
  • These territories included his patrimony in the Netherlands, where Protestantism had taken deep root.
  • The military interventions in France thus ended in an ironic fashion for Philip: they had failed to oust Henry from the throne or suppress Protestantism in France and yet they had played a decisive part in helping the French Catholic cause gain the conversion of Henry, ensuring that Catholicism would remain France's official and majority faith – matters of paramount importance for the devoutly Catholic Spanish king.

• Calvinism

  • Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and is characterized by the doctrine of predestination in the salvation of souls.
  • Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.
  • It vigorously attacked the teachings Calvin considered unorthodox, particularly Roman Catholicism, to which Calvin says he had been "strongly devoted" before his conversion to Protestantism.
  • Protestantism spread into France, where the Protestants were derisively nicknamed "Huguenots," and this touched off decades of warfare in France, after initial support by Henry of Navarre was lost due to the "Night of the Placards" affair.

• Christian Fundamentalism

  • Christian Fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity, or Fundamentalism, arose out of British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among Evangelical Christians.
  • A second school of thought developed in the mid-19th century from Princeton Theology, a conservative, reformed and Presbyterian strain of Protestantism taught at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
  • The original Fundamentalist Movement split along clearly defined lines within conservative, Evangelical Protestantism as thinking on various issues progressed.