Jehuda Felix ( Encylopedia Judaica.

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While the Roman Inquisition was originally designed to combat the spread of Protestantism in Italy, the institution outlived that original purpose and the system of tribunals lasted until the mid 18th century, when pre-unification Italian states began to suppress the local inquisitions, effectively eliminating the power of the church to prosecute heretical crimes.

While biographers such as Ackroyd have taken a relatively tolerant view of More's campaign against Protestantism by placing his actions within the turbulent religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as Richard Marius, have been more critical, believing that persecutions -- including what he perceives as the advocacy of extermination for Protestants -- were a betrayal of More's earlier humanist convictions.

While most Italian-American families have a Catholic background, there are converts to Protestantism as well.

While the UCC refers to its evangelical characteristics, it springs from ( and is considered part of ) mainline Protestantism as opposed to Evangelicalism.

While Protestantism often still did not form a separate legal entity, with state and Protestantism not being separated, the consistory turned out to be the oldest body of many modern church bodies, which developed as independent legal entities in the 18th and 19th c. With territorial changes ( heritage and conquest ) many territories became multi-denominational.

While the Community of Christ is somewhat more in line doctrinally with mainline Protestantism, they also believe in the Book of Mormon and an open scriptural canon, and place great emphasis upon peacemaking and similar pursuits.

" While within historical Anabaptism numerous variations occurred, the comparison of Anabaptism with Protestantism highlights a consistent core of faith and practice among the Anabaptists.

While the harsh oppression of Protestantism initiated by King Louis XIV had largely receded, Protestants were, at best, tolerated.

While the trust that Eells places in Christian missionaryism may seem naive at best, one must remember that he was raised on a very liberal, humanistic strain of early-nineteenth-century Protestantism.

While a major principle of whiggism was opposition to popery, that was always much more than a mere religious preference in favour of Protestantism, although most Whigs did have such a preference.

While Christianity is referred to as 基督教 ( Christ religion ), the modern Chinese language typically divides Christians into three groups: believers of Protestantism Xin jiaotu ( 新教徒, literally " new religion followers "), believers of Catholicism Tianzhu jiaotu ( 天主教徒, Lord of Heaven religion followers ), and believers of Orthodox Dongzheng jiaotu ( 東正教徒, Eastern Orthodox religion followers, but more correctly " zhengjiaotu " 正教徒, because there is only one Chinese term for both Eastern and Oriental which is " dong " 東 and simply means the east.

While the relatively lenient stance of the archbishops of Salzburg had allowed the creation of small pockets of Protestantism in their lands since the Protestant Reformation, the remaining Protestants were oppressed more harshly during the Habsburg rule of the 19th century.

While the so-called " Marian Persecutions " began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England ’ s Protestantism, Foxe ’ s Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which branched well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy.

While free grace is nominally undisputed in Protestantism, and the " Free Grace view " affirms good works are a proper response to salvation, it argues they should not be taken as the only or sine qua non evidence of one's salvation or righteous standing before God.

Protestantism in France was considered a grave threat to national unity, as the Huguenot minority felt a closer affinity to ( and often allied themselves with ) German and Dutch Calvinists than with their fellow Frenchmen.

The anti-revolutionaries had ties with the April movement, which opposed the official re-establishment of Roman Catholic bishoprics, and a mixed relationship with ( liberal -) conservatives in the House of Representatives, who also opposed reforms to the social and political system but often on the basis of a mix of liberal Protestantism and secular humanism.

As with his earlier work, English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century was opinionated, favouring Protestantism over Roman Catholicism and often attempting to justify England's treatment of Ireland, particularly under Oliver Cromwell ; a figure hated by the Irish.

Augustinism, one of the chief Christian schools of thought associated most often with Roman Catholicism and Calvinist Protestantism, strongly asserts the impassibility of God, as well as his impeccability.

Tallis composed during a difficult period during the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his music often displays characteristics of the turmoil.

Irish unionism is often centred on an identification with Protestantism, especially in the sense of Britishness, though not necessarily to the exclusion of a sense of Irishness or of an affinity to Northern Ireland specifically.

The Protestant work ethic is often credited with helping to define the societies of Northern Europe and other countries where Protestantism was common ( for example, the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America ).

In countries historically shaped by Western Christianity ( Roman Catholicism, Protestantism ) these customs often involve gift giving, " king cakes " and a celebratory close to the Christmas season.

As examples, the book often refers to Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Islam.

The culture of Europe might better be described as a series of multiple cultures, often competing ; geographical regions opposing one another, Orthodoxy as opposed to Protestantism as opposed to Judaism as opposed to Catholicism as opposed to Secularism as opposed to Islam ; many have claimed to identify cultural fault lines across the continent.

In Protestantism the call from God to devote one's life to him by joining the clergy is often covered by the English equivalent term " call ", whereas in Roman Catholicism " vocation " is still used.

Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one ’ s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion ( Christianity — see Protestantism ) and the burdens / rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect.

In Evangelical Protestantism, the time set aside to engage in personal Bible study is often called a Quiet Time.

One peculiarity of the term " Neo-Catholic " is that they often apply it to converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

Two major Catholic apologists whom they often call Neo-Catholic, Scott Hahn and Jimmy Akin, are converts from Protestantism, and they have described EWTN, which they often call Neo-Catholic, as having a theological committee where " he majority of the committee's members at the time, none of them priests, consisted of recently converted Protestants, two of whom were former Protestant ministers ” and also as having a staff of 40 % Protestants.

This distaste with Protestantism is often religious in nature, but in some areas, such as Northern Ireland, it is the unfortunate result of a battle of the European religious wars having been fought there, which polarised the people on religious, ethnic, and political grounds.

Orthodox Protestantism in continental Europe, however, distrusts natural reason and has often been critical of Platonism.

In Switzerland, the city of Geneva was commonly associated with the occult at the time, particularly by Catholics, because it had been a stronghold of Protestantism, and many of those interested in the esoteric travelled from their own Roman Catholic nations to Switzerland to purchase grimoires or to study with occultists.

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

Rosicrucianism was associated with Protestantism, Lutheranism in particular, and the manifestos opposed Roman Catholicism and its preference for dogma over empiricism.

Its transition to a stronghold of non-Anglican Protestantism occurred gradually over the next century as a series of religious revival movements, many associated with the Baptist denomination, gained great popularity in the region.

Closely associated with her temperance work was religion in the form of militant Protestantism and she endowed two Calvinistic Methodist churches in the Abercarn area, with services conducted in the Welsh language, but a liturgy based on the Book of Common Prayer.

Goudimel moved to Metz in 1557, converting to Protestantism, and is known to have been associated with the Huguenot cause there ; however he left Metz due to the increasing hostility of the city authorities to Protestants during the Wars of Religion.

The Tories were associated with staunch Protestantism, shown through membership in the Orange Order, and support for the Lord's Day Act.

In the course of the 16th century Protestantism became intimately associated with national identity in England: English folk in general saw Catholicism as the national enemy, especially as embodied in France and Spain.

The colour eventually came to be associated with Protestantism, due to participation by the House of Orange on the Protestant side in the French Wars of Religion and the Dutch Eighty Years ' War.

In this cemetery is the headstone of William Gault, the founder of the aforementioned Sunday school and a person associated with the Doagh Book Club and radical eighteenth century Protestantism.

Because Protestantism was at this time chiefly a religion of literate city dwellers, the so-called " Protestant work ethic " came to be associated with this newly-fashioned time discipline.

Confessions of Faith are in the main, though not exclusively, associated with Protestantism.

Additionally, Engels views the peasant war from the point of view of class struggle and Capitalism and Protestantism as being associated.