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Protestant

The churches and movements born of the sixteenth-century Reformations, holding Scripture as the final authority and justification by faith, in many polities and confessions.

Protestant names the family of churches that separated from Rome in the Reformation, or descend from those that did. It is a branch, not a single church: Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Baptist, Anabaptist, Methodist, and independent bodies share the Reformation's founding claims while differing on sacraments, ministry, and the church itself.

Produced by Protestant Reformation

1517 and after · Justification, the authority of Scripture, and the number and nature of the sacraments.

Current status of that division: In dialogue.

Sub-branch / Family

Sub-branch / Family Anglican The churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, holding the historic episcopate, the Book of Common Prayer, and a formularies tradition between… From the English Reformation, 1534 and after Sub-branch / Family Lutheran The churches of the Augsburg Confession, holding justification by grace through faith and the sacraments as the means of grace, ordered in… Sub-branch / Family Reformed and Presbyterian The churches of the Swiss Reformation, holding God's sovereignty, covenant theology, and presbyterian or congregational order under confessions such… Sub-branch / Family Baptist The churches that baptize only professing believers, by immersion, holding the local congregation autonomous under Christ and the Bible as their only… Sub-branch / Family Anabaptist The radical Reformation's heirs: believer's baptism, discipleship, nonviolence, and the separated community, carried by Mennonites, Amish… Sub-branch / Family Independent and Non-denominational Churches and networks that stand outside the historic denominations, holding congregational independence while sharing the evangelical inheritance of…

Movements

Movements cross branches; each one below also stands under the other branches it appears in.

Movement / Current Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity The movement that expects the Holy Spirit's baptism and gifts, tongues among them, as the normal Christian experience, crossing the Protestant… In dialogue

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Sources

Primary

  • The Augsburg Confession (1530).

Secondary

  • Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought (2012).