Their main purpose was to exclude anyone not a member of the Church of England from holding government office, notably Catholics and " nonconforming " Protestants.

Jews, Protestants, and Catholics all use the Masoretic text as the textual basis for their translations of the protocanonical books ( those which are received by both Jews and all Christians ), with various emendations derived from a multiplicity of other ancient witnesses ( such as the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

Many evangelical Protestants reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even while agreeing with some or all of the substance of the creeds.

Most Protestants reject the doctrine of Purgatory on the basis that, according to the Protestant interpretation of Scripture, Christ has already made full atonement for our sins on the cross, thereby removing all obstacles which prevent us from coming directly into the presence of God after death.

When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.

However, the Cabal Ministry they formed can hardly be seen as such ; the Scot Lauderdale was not much involved in English governance at all, while the Catholic ministers of the Cabal ( Clifford and Arlington ) were never much in sympathy with the Protestants ( Buckingham and Ashley ).

George Every claims that the existence of " myths in the Bible would now be admitted by nearly everyone ", including " probably all Roman Catholics and a majority of Protestants ".

Although some Protestants reject the concept of an ecumenical council establishing doctrine for the entire Christian faith, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox all accept the authority of ecumenical councils in principle.

The culture war gave secularists and socialists an opportunity to attack all religions, an outcome that distressed the Protestants, including Bismarck, who was a devout pietistic Protestant.

However the relationship was strong enough to withstand disputes over the use of ecclesiastical revenues and tensions stemming from the ministers ' insistence that all magistrates must be true Protestants.

Protestants generally use religious art for teaching and for inspiration, but such images are not venerated as in Orthodoxy, and many Protestant church sanctuaries contain no imagery at all.

Along with Julius von Pflug, bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, and Michael Helding, titular bishop of Sidon, he prepared the Augsburg Interim of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on justification but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice.

In the present time this cardinal has power over mission territories for Catholicism, essentially the Churches of Africa and Asia, but in the past his competence extended also to all lands where Protestants or Eastern Christianity was dominant.

Seventh-day Protestants regard Sabbath as a day of rest for all mankind and not Israel alone, based on Jesus's statement, " the Sabbath was made for man " ( i. e., purposed for humankind at the time of its creation,, cf.

During the Counter-Reformation in the late 16th and 17th centuries, led by the bishop of Ljubljana Tomaž Hren and Seckau Martin Brenner, almost all Protestants were expelled from the Slovene Lands ( with the exception of Prekmurje ).

The Tudors otherwise rejected or suppressed other religious notions, whether for the Pope's award of Fidei Defensor or to prevent them from being in the hands of the common laity, who might be swayed by cells of foreign Protestants, with whom they had conversation as Marian exiles, pursuing a strategy of containment which the Lancastrians had done ( after being vilified by Wat Tyler ), even though the phenomenon of " Lollard knights " ( like John Oldcastle ) had become almost a national sensation all on its own.

The term " WASP ", in use since the 1960s, refers to all Protestants of English ancestry, including both Yankees and Southerners, though its meaning is often extended to refer to any Protestant white American.

As this was directed against Melanchthon himself, he protested, so that his opponents left, greatly to the satisfaction of the Roman Catholics who now broke off the colloquy, throwing all blame upon the Protestants.

The Whig tendency supported the great aristocratic families, the Protestant Hanoverian succession, and toleration for nonconformist Protestants ( the " dissenters ," such as Presbyterians ), while some Tories supported the exiled Stuart royal family's claim to the throne ( Jacobitism ), and virtually all Tories supported the established Church of England and the gentry.

If they were given the opportunity, the Protestants would get an official answer to their grievance by the next Friday ( seeing as this was all taking place on the eve of Ascension Day and they all must observe the holy day ).

Anne may have left the capital deliberately to avoid being present, or because she was genuinely ill, but it is also possible that James desired the exclusion of all Protestants, including his daughter, from affairs of state.

Traditional Protestants such as Reformed and Lutheran recognize the first four councils, whereas most High Church Anglicans accept all seven.

Under his authority, all books written by Protestants were banned, together with Italian and German translations of the Latin Bible.

Understanding the Protestant " faith alone " doctrine to be one of simple human confidence in divine mercy, the Council rejected the " vain confidence " of the Protestants, stating that no one can know who has received the grace of God.

Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and some Protestants teach the Sacrament of Baptism is the means by which each person's damaged human nature is healed and Sanctifying Grace ( capacity to enjoy and participate in the spiritual life of God ) is restored.

Since human nature ( and therefore concupiscence ) is not voluntarily chosen, the Catholic Church does not teach that it is sinful ; some Protestants believe that, since some sins are involuntary, it can be.

But at the same time, in the mystery of the Church as his Body, Christ has in a sense opened his own redemptive suffering to all human suffering " ( Salvifici Doloris 19 ; 24 ). Some Protestants reject the idea of the Eucharist as a sacrifice, inclining to see it as merely a holy meal ( even if they believe in a form of the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine, as Lutherans do ).

The fact that this booklet was also meant to form bridges between Lutheran and Reformed Protestants in Germany can for example be seen from the role the Law takes as both the source of knowledge of human depravity and misery ( first part of the Catechism ) and the ' rule for gratitude ', the source of knowledge of God's will for a holy life.

The constitution of the new Church was thus democratic and Protestant, but in some respects the German Catholics went even further than the majority of Protestants in a liberal direction, inasmuch as they claimed for all complete religious liberty and declared their religion to be capable of development and modification with the progress of the human mind.

Some Christian denominations hold that salvation depends upon transformational faith in Jesus, which expresses itself in good works as a testament ( or witness ) to ones faith for others to see ( primarily Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism ), while others ( including most Protestants ) hold that faith alone is necessary for salvation.

Ably assisted by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille ; promoted agriculture, public works, construction of highways, and the first French canal ; started such important industries as the tapestry works of the Gobelins ; and intervened in favor of Protestants in the duchies and earldoms along the German frontier.

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

There can be no fellowship with the wicked in the world ; there can be no participation in works, church services, meetings and civil affairs of those who live in contradiction to the commands of God ( Catholics and Protestants ).

The Council upheld salvation appropriated by grace through faith and works of that faith ( not just by faith, as the Protestants insisted ) because " faith without works is dead ", as the Epistle of St. James states ( 1 22: 26 ).

The Council officially accepted the Vulgate listing of the Old Testament Bible which included the deuterocanonical works ( also called the Apocrypha, especially by Protestants ) on a par with the 39 books customarily found in the Masoretic Text and the Protestant Old Testament.

Devotion to the traditional works of mercy exemplified the Catholic Reformation's reaffirmation of salvation through faith and works, and repudiation of the maxim sola scriptura emphasized by Protestants sects.

Finney, like most Protestants, affirmed salvation by grace through faith alone, not by works or by obedience.

Some Protestants see this doctrine as being summarized with the formula " Faith yields justification and good works " and as contrasted with the Roman Catholic formula " Faith and good works yield justification.

They included in the testaments those works which would later be called deuterocanonical by most Protestants, along with 3 Esdras which is now called 2 Esdras and Paul's epistle to the Laodiceans.

He provided financial support for the printing of the first complete Polish translation of the Bible in 1563 in Brest-Litovsk, distributed works written in defense of the Reformed faith, financed a church and college in Vilnius, supported educated Protestants, and in various other ways fostered the Calvinist faith.

Edmund Hamilton Sears ( April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876 ) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants.

Protestants adopted the fruit metaphor in a number of important works.

Historic Protestantism has never denied that there is a place for good and faithful works, but has always excluded them from justification and salvation, which Protestants argue is through faith alone, and in which good deeds are of no account, either within or without God's grace.