Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward.

Why was American intellectual life so provincial in the first place? This question is Hollinger’s starting point in Chris­tianity’s American Fate. His answer is simple: Protestantism. The United ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...

Drawing primarily from Suffolk sources, this book explores the development and place of Protestantism in early modern society, defined as much in terms of its practice in local communities as in its ...

Theologian Stanley Hauerwas, a Protestant, believes we may have come to the end of Protestantism in our country — and, Hauerwas quotes Cardinal George saying that even American Catholicism is ...

In all the hopeful talk of a peaceful coming together of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, the conversation sooner or later gets down to Spain. The real Catholicism, say its most wary ...

If I am immoderate, at least I am simple and open." Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation: a religious conflict between Protestants and ...

A creed is a short statement of key Christian beliefs. Creeds express and make clear the most important Christian beliefs, including the nature of God. The congregation often recites them during ...