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Jun 28, 2017 · A plethora of religious iconography fill the National Museum of American History's new exhibit, Religion in Early America. From left to right, an 18th century Torah scroll, a 17th century Catholic ...
- Tom Gjelten
Nov 15, 2023 · Americans, especially, are fond of citing the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson’s “self-evident” truth that “all men are created equal.”. Here, they suppose, was a radical new ...
- Darrin M. Mcmahon
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But Christianity is largely responsible for many of the principles and institutions that even secular people cherish—chief among them equality and liberty. When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” he called the proposition “self-evident.”. But he did not mean that it is ...
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The Protestant Heritage, Protestantism originated in the 16th-century Reformation, and its basic doctrines, in addition to those of the ancient Christian creeds, are justification by grace alone through faith, the priesthood of all believers, and the supremacy of Holy Scripture in matters of faith and order. Variation in sacramental doctrine exists...
The interpretation of Protestantism up to this point has been, with only a few noted exceptions, based on the majority view among the 16th-century Protestant movements. No single term adequately covers the Lutheran-Calvinist-Anglican complex, though magisterial, establishment, mainline, conservative, and classical have frequently been applied to these movements. Of considerable parallel significance was another, even more complicated cluster of movements, for which no single term can be agreed upon. Some historians speak of “the radical” Reformation or “the left wing of the Reformation.”
A more descriptive term is alternative reform movements. All Reformation movements shared the conviction that they had returned to the authentic message of the Bible. This view, however, was based on an assumption that was never satisfactorily validated: that these movements shared an essential theological and ecclesial homogeneity. One may argue instead that these minority movements were lumped together not because of their homogeneity but because none of them enjoyed governmental approval.
The age of. Reformation. and Counter-Reformation. The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th. This was the time when Protestantism, through its definitive break with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its place on the Christian map.
Jul 14, 2017 · Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America tells the story of religion in the United States through the material culture of diverse spiritual pursuits in the nation's colonial period and the ...
May 16, 2023 · The role of Christianity deserves our attention because of the religion's important role in the conceptualization, popularization, and practice of human rights in the United States and, thanks to Christians’ overseas networks, to every corner of the world. 1 The increasingly global understanding of rights, however, did not lead to the ...
