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Protestantism

Also known as Protestant Church, Christian Protestantism, Protestant churches, Protestant Christianity, Protestant, Protestants, așa-numita religie reformată, Protestantism istoric

thumb|The door to All Saints' Church, Wittenberg|All Saints' Church in [[Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses in 1517 detailing his concerns with what he saw as the Catholic Church's abuse and corruption. The Ninety-five Theses gave rise to Christian Protestantism as one of the world's primary religions, making Wittenberg the "cradle of Protestantism".]]

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Protestantism is a major branch of Christianity that began in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses criticizing what he viewed as abuse and corruption in the Catholic Church. It matters because it became one of the world's primary religions and fundamentally divided Christian belief and practice into separate traditions.

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1,321 papers

Protestantism and Child Mortality in Brazil.Journal of religion and health · 2021Bernardelli LV, Kortt MA, Michellon EDOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01149-7
Conservative Protestantism and Penis Size: More Evidence Against the Theory of Evangelicalism and Phallocentric Masculine Insecurity.Journal of religion and health · 2025Hill TD, Burdette AMDOI: 10.1007/s10943-025-02423-2
'Tolerable Intolerance': Protestantism, Sectarianism and Voluntary Hospitals in Late-nineteenth-century London.Medical history · 2018Mangion CMDOI: 10.1017/mdh.2018.43
Ascetic Protestantism and alcoholism.Psychiatry · 1953THORNER IDOI: 10.1080/00332747.1953.11022921
German words, German personality and Protestantism.Psychiatry · 1945THORNER IDOI: 10.1080/00332747.1945.11022571
My Path to Bioethics.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2018Beauchamp TLDOI: 10.1017/S0963180117000354
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[Contributions of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Buddhism to medicine--taking into account the future of palliative medicine in Japan].Seishin shinkeigaku zasshi = Psychiatria et neurologia Japonica · 2014Kato S

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inception: 1517-11-10
Commons category: Protestantism
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58 sections

Contents

Terminology
Theology
Sola Scriptura
Justification by faith alone
Universal priesthood of believers
Trinity
Five solae
Christ's presence in the Eucharist
Other beliefs
History
Pre-Reformation
Reformation
Post-Reformation
Radical Reformation
Denominations
United and uniting churches
Major branches
Lutheranism
Anglicanism
Calvinism (Reformed Christianity)
Methodism
Hussitism
Adventism
Pentecostalism
Quakerism
Plymouth Brethren
Baptists
Anabaptism
Other Protestants
Interdenominational movements
Evangelicalism
Charismatic movement
Neo-charismatic churches
Protestant offshoots
Arminianism
Pietism
Puritanism, English dissenters and nonconformists
Neo-orthodoxy and paleo-orthodoxy
Christian fundamentalism
Modernism and liberalism
Protestant culture
Visitation Articles
Thought and work ethic
Science
Government
Rights and liberty
Social teaching
Liturgy
Arts
Catholic responses
Ecumenism
Demographics
See also
Explanatory notes
References
Works cited
Further reading
External links

Protestantism is a form of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. The five solae summarize the basic theological beliefs of mainstream Protestantism.