Protestantism

Examines the Reformation, sola scriptura, justification, biblical authority, denominational division, sacraments, and Protestant claims about the early Church.

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Origin & History

15 resources

• What Is the Anabaptist Tradition?
• The First Great Awakening: Revival, Conversion, and Evangelical America
• Who Are the Pentecostals? A History of Revival, Fire, and Controversy
• The Protestant Reformation: What Happened and Why It Still Matters
• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• The Second Great Awakening: Revival, Reform, and the Making of American Evangelicalism
• Evangelicalism vs. Fundamentalism: Where Did the Movements Come From—and How Are They Different?
• Who Were the Puritans? Reforming the Church of England Beyond the Reformation
• Did the Reformation Restore Early Christianity—or Create Something New?
• Did the Early Church Teach Calvinism? Predestination, Free Will, and Grace Before Augustine
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• Did the Early Church Believe in Sola Scriptura?
• The Zwickau Prophets
• The Magisterial Reformation
• The Five Solas of Protestantism

Key Figures

6 resources

• The Priesthood of All Believers: What Luther Actually Meant
• Did the Early Church Teach Calvinism? Predestination, Free Will, and Grace Before Augustine
• Did Martin Luther Remove Books From the Bible? James, the Apocrypha, and the Reformation Canon
• John Calvin and the Early Reformed Church
• Who Was Martin Luther?
• The Zwickau Prophets

Sola Scriptura

9 resources

• What Protestants and Orthodox Christians Believe About Scripture
• Why “Tradition” is Different for Protestants and Orthodox Christians
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Did Martin Luther Remove Books From the Bible? James, the Apocrypha, and the Reformation Canon
• The Five Solas: What the Protestant Reformers Actually Meant
• Did the Early Church Believe in Sola Scriptura?
• What is Sola Scriptura?
• The Zwickau Prophets
• The Five Solas of Protestantism

The Five Solas

3 resources

• The Five Solas: What the Protestant Reformers Actually Meant
• What is Sola Scriptura?
• The Five Solas of Protestantism

Justification by Faith Alone

3 resources

• Sola Fide: What Did the Reformers Mean by “Faith Alone”?
• The Five Solas: What the Protestant Reformers Actually Meant
• The Five Solas of Protestantism

Evangelical & Revivalist Movements

10 resources

• The First Great Awakening: Revival, Conversion, and Evangelical America
• Who Are the Pentecostals? A History of Revival, Fire, and Controversy
• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• The Second Great Awakening: Revival, Reform, and the Making of American Evangelicalism
• Seventh-day Adventism: Ellen White, 1844, the Investigative Judgment, and the Sabbath
• Where Did Non-Denominational Christianity Come From? Revivalism, Restorationism, Evangelicalism, and the Modern Independent Church
• Evangelicalism vs. Fundamentalism: Where Did the Movements Come From—and How Are They Different?
• What Is Pentecostalism? Azusa Street, Spirit Baptism, Tongues, and Trinitarian Orthodoxy
• What Is Dispensationalism? Darby, Israel, the Church, and the End Times
• The Jesus Movement

The Magisterial Reformation

12 resources

• What Happened to Monasticism in the Reformation? Luther, Vows, Monasteries, and Christian Vocation
• The Priesthood of All Believers: What Luther Actually Meant
• Did the Reformation Restore Early Christianity—or Create Something New?
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Did Martin Luther Remove Books From the Bible? James, the Apocrypha, and the Reformation Canon
• Sola Fide: What Did the Reformers Mean by “Faith Alone”?
• The Five Solas: What the Protestant Reformers Actually Meant
• John Calvin and the Early Reformed Church
• Who Was Martin Luther?
• The Zwickau Prophets
• The Magisterial Reformation
• The Five Solas of Protestantism

The Radical Reformation

4 resources

• What Is the Anabaptist Tradition?
• The Radical Reformation: Who Were the Anabaptists—and Why Did Other Christians Persecute Them?
• Did the Reformation Restore Early Christianity—or Create Something New?
• The Zwickau Prophets

The Lutheran Tradition

11 resources

• What Happened to Monasticism in the Reformation? Luther, Vows, Monasteries, and Christian Vocation
• The Priesthood of All Believers: What Luther Actually Meant
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Once Saved, Always Saved? What Protestants Actually Believe About Eternal Security
• Symbol, Spiritual Presence, or True Body and Blood? The Protestant Debate Over the Lord’s Supper
• Is Baptism Only Symbolic? What Lutherans, Reformed Christians, Anglicans, and Baptists Actually Believe
• Sola Fide: What Did the Reformers Mean by “Faith Alone”?
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• The Lutheran Tradition Explained
• Who Was Martin Luther?
• The Magisterial Reformation

The Reformed Tradition

12 resources

• Who Were the Puritans? Reforming the Church of England Beyond the Reformation
• Covenant Theology vs. Dispensationalism: Two Protestant Ways of Reading the Bible
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Once Saved, Always Saved? What Protestants Actually Believe About Eternal Security
• Did the Early Church Teach Calvinism? Predestination, Free Will, and Grace Before Augustine
• Symbol, Spiritual Presence, or True Body and Blood? The Protestant Debate Over the Lord’s Supper
• Is Baptism Only Symbolic? What Lutherans, Reformed Christians, Anglicans, and Baptists Actually Believe
• Sola Fide: What Did the Reformers Mean by “Faith Alone”?
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• Calvinism vs. Arminianism
• John Calvin and the Early Reformed Church
• The Magisterial Reformation

The Anglican Tradition

8 resources

• What Happened to Monasticism in the Reformation? Luther, Vows, Monasteries, and Christian Vocation
• Who Were the Puritans? Reforming the Church of England Beyond the Reformation
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Symbol, Spiritual Presence, or True Body and Blood? The Protestant Debate Over the Lord’s Supper
• Is Baptism Only Symbolic? What Lutherans, Reformed Christians, Anglicans, and Baptists Actually Believe
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• The Anglican Tradition
• The Magisterial Reformation

The Anabaptist Tradition

2 resources

• What Is the Anabaptist Tradition?
• The Radical Reformation: Who Were the Anabaptists—and Why Did Other Christians Persecute Them?

Baptist & Free Church Traditions

10 resources

• The Second Great Awakening: Revival, Reform, and the Making of American Evangelicalism
• Where Did Non-Denominational Christianity Come From? Revivalism, Restorationism, Evangelicalism, and the Modern Independent Church
• Covenant Theology vs. Dispensationalism: Two Protestant Ways of Reading the Bible
• What Is Dispensationalism? Darby, Israel, the Church, and the End Times
• The Radical Reformation: Who Were the Anabaptists—and Why Did Other Christians Persecute Them?
• Once Saved, Always Saved? What Protestants Actually Believe About Eternal Security
• Symbol, Spiritual Presence, or True Body and Blood? The Protestant Debate Over the Lord’s Supper
• Is Baptism Only Symbolic? What Lutherans, Reformed Christians, Anglicans, and Baptists Actually Believe
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• The Baptist Tradition

Methodist & Wesleyan Traditions

6 resources

• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• The Second Great Awakening: Revival, Reform, and the Making of American Evangelicalism
• Once Saved, Always Saved? What Protestants Actually Believe About Eternal Security
• Is Baptism Only Symbolic? What Lutherans, Reformed Christians, Anglicans, and Baptists Actually Believe
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained
• Methodism and John Wesley Explained

The Holiness Movement

3 resources

• Who Are the Pentecostals? A History of Revival, Fire, and Controversy
• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• The Holiness Movement

Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements

5 resources

• Who Are the Pentecostals? A History of Revival, Fire, and Controversy
• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• Oneness Pentecostalism: Is Jesus the Father? Modalism, Acts 2:38, and Baptism “in Jesus’ Name”
• What Is Pentecostalism? Azusa Street, Spirit Baptism, Tongues, and Trinitarian Orthodoxy
• What Is Protestantism? The Reformation and Its Major Christian Traditions Explained

Fundamentalism & Modernism

1 resource

• Evangelicalism vs. Fundamentalism: Where Did the Movements Come From—and How Are They Different?

Non-Denominational Christianity

3 resources

• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• Where Did Non-Denominational Christianity Come From? Revivalism, Restorationism, Evangelicalism, and the Modern Independent Church
• The Jesus Movement

Modern Worship Culture

3 resources

• Who Are the Pentecostals? A History of Revival, Fire, and Controversy
• The Evangelical Movement: A Family of Revival-Shaped Protestant Christianity
• The Jesus Movement

Protestantism vs Orthodoxy

12 resources

• What Protestants and Orthodox Christians Believe About Scripture
• Why “Tradition” is Different for Protestants and Orthodox Christians
• Why Orthodox Worship Feels So Different from Protestant Worship
• Why Protestants and Orthodox Differ on Sacraments
• Did the Reformation Restore Early Christianity—or Create Something New?
• Did the Reformers Reject Church Authority, Bishops, and Tradition?
• Once Saved, Always Saved? What Protestants Actually Believe About Eternal Security
• Did the Early Church Teach Calvinism? Predestination, Free Will, and Grace Before Augustine
• Symbol, Spiritual Presence, or True Body and Blood? The Protestant Debate Over the Lord’s Supper
• Did Martin Luther Remove Books From the Bible? James, the Apocrypha, and the Reformation Canon
• Did the Early Church Believe in Sola Scriptura?
• The Five Solas of Protestantism