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Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019.
History of Protestantism in the United States. The Early Puritans of New England Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867) Christianity was introduced with the first European settlers beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Protestantism originated from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The term Protestant comes from the Protestation at Speyer in 1529, where the nobility protested against enforcement of the Edict of Worms which subjected advocates of Lutheranism to forfeit all of their property.
The First Great Awakening was a movement in the early-18th century (1730s-40s) that saw a great revival of Evangelicalism within Protestantism. The Second Great Awakening was an early 19th-century revival spurred on by the uncertainty of life following the Revolution, starting in the frontier as preachers visited settler towns to preach.
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- Preachers back then had VERY loud voices to speak to crowds.
- Hi Audrey, this is when the Mormon (LDS) church was founded! I talk about that a bit more in part 3 of this video series. You can check it out here...
- Yes. It happened before the second one.
- The LDS church began in 1830. It can be seen, in part, as a product of the second great awakening.
- I would think that the inspiration for women to change, is that they are not just "property" in early 1800s America. There is a chance for women to...
- The First Great Awakening was a series of Christian religious revivals, taking place in Britain and the thirteen colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
- Preachers probably were different from North to South in the same way that people are different from North to South. The Bible (which the preachers...
- Calvinism takes the Bible (traditional Christianity and the Gospel) very seriously and tries to harmonize all of its concepts. The problem is, ther...
Today there are many types of Protestant Churches. For example, Baptist is currently the largest denomination in the United States but there are many dozens more. How did this happen? Where did they all begin?
- The 95 Theses' were 95 things about the church that Martin Luther didn't like. They were the things he wanted to change. Martin Luther felt that it...
- Primarily because of their alliance to kings and countries because they promised to protect church if they agreed to the king or countries' laws. A...
- They were still overall dependent on others. More /men/ learned to read, and heads-of-households could interpret what the Bible said for their fami...
- When Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929, he was actually named Michael, after his father - this is the name on his original birth certificate...
- The Bible actually says very little on the subject of Hell and Purgatory when compared to religious thought on the subject. Most of what we would c...
- While they both have very similar names, no they do not share any relation.
- That was 95 thing Luther found that he believed were wrong in the church if he found 82 then it would be called the 82 thesis
- The Council of Trent was a group of several different people who met for 18 years about the laws of the Catholic Church.
- The Catholic church was pretty much in control of society, economics, government, and religion throughout the middle ages until the Protestant Revo...
- It is the nature of humans to be corrupt. Leave any institution to its own devices for long enough and it will become corrupt.
The theological and religious descendants of the Protestant Reformation arrived in the United States in the early 17th century, shaped American culture in the 18th century, grew dramatically in the 19th century, and continued to be the guardians of American religious life in the 20th century.
As Protestants established their faith as the dominant cultural, religious, and ideological force in North America, they used their religiously inflected definitions of race to create racial and religious hierarchies, enshrining white Protestantism at the apogee of these invented categories.
