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What defines Protestantism? What are the core tenets that would define a Church as being Protestant?
What defines Protestantism? What are the core tenets that would define a Church as being Protestant?
But there are so many Protestant Churches, who can say what is and isn't truly Protestant?
Most anything outside Roman/Othorodox/Etc Catholic doctrine.
Those who protest-ed against the church and broke off to do their own thing. Many are sola scriptura, but then you have purely evangelists, charismatic, non-denominational, etc. You have dogmatic ones like Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, and so forth. But all from what I understand is their rejection of catholic tenants and Church practices not in scripture and/or taught in the OT but by tradition.
But there are so many Protestant Churches, who can say what is and isn't truly Protestant?
Pretty much this. Though, I do feel this covers more of the American style protestantism. American protestantism can be different from Protestantism from other parts of the world.
When some of our church members went on a mission trip to China, a lot of the people there who were secret Christians had also been mixing their local spiritual practices with Baptist ideologies. I hear their church sermons involved animal noises and such... Wish I could have seen that.
The people who went on that mission trip were horrified.
You can't really. The only core common feature is that it encompasses all the branches of WesternBut there are so many Protestant Churches, who can say what is and isn't truly Protestant?
Right, so I'm starting to wonder if 'Protestant' is even a meaningful term.You can't really. The only core common feature is that it encompasses all the branches of Western
(non-Orthodox) Christianity that reject the authority of the pope and the Real Presence in the Eucharist (I think). For that reason one almost always has to qualify the term further in order to define any grouping of them.
You can't really. The only core common feature is that it encompasses all the branches of Western
(non-Orthodox) Christianity that reject the authority of the pope and the Real Presence in the Eucharist (I think). For that reason one almost always has to qualify the term further in order to define any grouping of them.
There isn't one. You can choose, on a long spectrum from Anglicanism (Episcopalianism) that resembles Catholicism in many ways and has sacraments, priests and bishops, through to Calvinists and Baptists, passing through Methodists and Presbyterians en route - and then on past the Quakers to the wacky end with the 7th Day Adventists and sundry weird self-invented millenarians.So between all the different denominations, which is 'right'? Because there are so many with theologies and doctrines so varied, which is 'the' one?
When I was a Christian I attended Anglican churches and later a Catholic one; little difference as both have Masses, but I'd be lost in another Protestant Church.There isn't one. You can choose, on a long spectrum from Anglicanism (Episcopalianism) that resembles Catholicism in many ways and has sacraments, priests and bishops, through to Calvinists and Baptists, passing through Methodists and Presbyterians en route - and then on past the Quakers to the wacky end with the 7th Day Adventists and sundry weird self-invented millenarians.
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Yes. Mostly american. My co-worker went overseas in missionary to try to "win people to christ." Above, I went to this a couple of times when I was younger when we went to funerals. She's dancing with the holy spirit (as so they believe).
So between all the different denominations, which is 'right'? Because there are so many with theologies and doctrines so varied, which is 'the' one?