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Protestantism|ˈprɒtɪstənˌtɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism. Cf. F. protestantisme.]
1. The religion of Protestants, as opposed to Roman Catholicism; the condition of being Protestant; adherence to Protestant principles.
1649Milton Eikon. xv. 142 In the setling of Protestantism, thir [Papists'] aid was both unseemly and suspicious. 1726Jos. Trapp Popery iii. 205 There were Schisms..long before Popery, and consequently much longer before Protestantism..was in Being. 1775Burke Sp. Conc. Amer. Wks. III. 53 But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the protestant religion. 1790― Fr. Rev. 30 It was still a line of hereditary descent..though an hereditary descent qualified with protestantism. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 54 When the Jesuits came to the rescue of the papacy..Protestantism..was stopped in its progress, and rapidly beaten back from the foot of the Alps to the shores of the Baltic. 1862J. H. Newman Let. 28 June (1970) XX. 216, I do hereby profess ex animo..that Protestantism is the dreariest of possible religions; that the thought of the Anglican service makes me shiver. 1864― Apologia pro Vita Sua v. 181, I held a large bold system of religion, very unlike the Protestantism of the day, but it was the concentration and adjustment of the statements of great Anglican authorities. 1895Bp. Gore Creed of Christian x. (ed. 7) 60 She [Ch. of Eng.], more than any other branch of the Church Catholic, holds together Church authority, Bible authority, and individual conscience. The Church of Rome makes much of one; Protestantism makes much of the other two. 1930T. Parsons tr. Weber's Protestant Ethic 27 We are dealing with the connection of the spirit of modern economic life with the rational ethics of ascetic Protestantism. 1938O. C. Quick Doctrines of Creed ii. 12 While the error of scholasticism was to tie down Christianity to a particular philosophy, the error of much modern Protestantism has been to disparage philosophy altogether. 1952P. Tillich Courage to Be v. 114 Protestantism..was established as a strictly authoritarian and conformist system, similar to that of its adversary, the Roman Church of the Counter-reformation. 1964A. Watts Beyond Theol. vi. 155, I am not speaking of modern ‘liberal Protestantism’, but of that ‘old-time Bible religion’. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 136/2 Providence..may also be experienced as personal guidance. This latter phenomenon is common..in some forms of Protestantism in which generally each person is expected to have a private experience of divine guidance. 1976B. Griffiths Return to Centre xv. 106 Protestantism opened the Bible to the private interpretation of every man. 1976Times 13 Aug. 13/6 What gives them their weight and validity is their promulgation by the magisterium and surely it is this authority that the traditionalists are ready to defy. Is not this nearer to the heart of Protestantism? 1977B. Colloms Victorian Country Parsons xii. 228 William Kingsley was a broadminded parson whose sermons and services were suitable for most brands of Protestantism.
2. Protestants, or the Protestant churches, collectively.
1662–3South Serm. (1727) V. 60 The only thing that makes Protestantism considerable in Christendom, is the Church of England. a1677J. Harrington Grounds Monarchy ii. §108 The slow assistances sent to his Daughter, in whose safety and protection Protestantism was at that time so much concern'd. 1902Daily Chron. 28 July 7/3 Protestantism, meaning by that all the non-Roman Catholic persuasions, has held its own, but the Roman Catholics are still steadily dwindling. 1948F. W. Dillistone in M. Warren Triumph of God iii. 80 The energy of young Protestantism was bound to be poured out in the effort to consolidate its own position within the hostile environment by which it was surrounded.
3. The condition of protesting; an attitude of protest or objection. rare.
1854H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 388 There, needs, then, a protestantism in social usages. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 366 How his protestantism against her doctrines should exhibit itsef on the turf. |