This question is Hollinger’s starting point in Chris­tianity’s American Fate. His answer is simple: Protestantism. The United States may not have been founded as a Christian nation, but the dominance ...

Protestantism did not spring fully formed from the minds and mouths of the Reformers. When Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in 1517, he was ...

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Some Protestant Sunday schools, as recently as five years ago, were still teaching that the Catholics were “papists” and “enemies of the Gospel,” and that the Jews had suffered through ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...

If I am immoderate, at least I am simple and open." Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation: a religious conflict between Protestants and ...

A creed is a short statement of key Christian beliefs. Creeds express and make clear the most important Christian beliefs, including the nature of God. The congregation often recites them during ...

If I am immoderate, at least I am simple and open." Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation: a religious conflict between Protestants and ...