Quotes About Protestant

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

When they faded and Protestant leaders looked around, they recognized that a situation had come into existence that almost none of them had anticipated. That new situation was the presence of separate Protestant churches in separate parts of Europe.

The host of Protestant differences only rarely erupted into full-scale doctrinal battle, though Protestant violence against Anabaptists was a sad reality throughout the sixteenth century, and intra-Protestant disagreement leading to violence was known in several places throughout Europe.

These are the facts of pre-Code Hollywood. The story behind it is monumental, because it deals with struggle for power. The stakes were high: the billion-dollar market for America's sixth-largest industry. The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control. This is the story of *Forbidden Hollywood.*

The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control.

Left identitarians who think of themselves as radical creatures, contesting this and transgressing that, have become like buttoned-up Protestant schoolmarms when it comes to the English language, parsing every conversation for immodest locutions and rapping the knuckles of those who inadvertently use them.

Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

They are stealing our sheep". So one Jesuit described the tide of change sweeping Christianity in Latin America, long a Catholic bastion. Who are "they"? The new evangelical, Pentecostalist, and charismatic Protestant churches that have sprouted across the region in the last thirty years..... But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren't sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.

though the Western tradition and particularly the Protestant and evangelical traditions have claimed to be based on the Bible and rooted in scripture, they have by and large developed long-lasting and subtle strategies for not listening to what the Bible is in fact saying. We must stop giving nineteenth-century answers to sixteenth-century questions and try to give twenty-first-century answers to first-century questions.

Sanders argued, basically, that the normal Christian, and especially Protestant, readings of Paul were seriously flawed, because they attributed to first-century Judaism theological views which belonged rather to medieval Catholicism. Once we described Judaism accurately, Sanders argued, we were forced to rethink Paul's critique of it, and his whole positive theology in its turn.

The anti-cultic attitude is rooted in the theology of Martin Luther. Protestant scholars have dominated modern biblical scholarship until recently. This is especially true for German scholarship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which is still influential today. Aversion to ritual dominates this scholarship.

Democracy functions in Protestant nations. It barely functions in Catholic nations. It doesn't function at all in Orthodox nations.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

In 1689, Protestant forces loyal to William of Orange, the new king, had managed to hold the city against a siege by a Catholic army loyal to James II.

Protestant church tradition developed over several centuries when Christians were not yet forced, by virtue of the culminating evidence, to see the Bible in its ancient context.