Protestant

protestant English Alternative forms en protestant Etymology en :bor de:Protestant fr:protestant + Borrowed from either en de Protestant or en fr protestant, one likely reinforced by the other; equivalent to en protest ant. Pronunciation en /ˈpɹɒtɪstənt/ RP en /ˈpɹɑtɪstənt/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Protestant.wav US Noun en Q110714168 en Christianity A member of any of several Christian denominations which separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation (or in some cases later). en protester dissenter dissident ; nonconformist ; Reformer reformer ; Christian#Noun<qq:sometimes sectarianly used synonymously> < religionist#Noun < person#Noun en Roman Catholic<id:Q7361618> Catholic<id:Q7361618><qq:Roman Catholic sense> en 2003 MacCulloch Diarmaid Diarmaid MacCulloch w:The Reformation: A History Penguin 9781101563953 xviii-xix Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity ’Catholic’ is clearly a word which a lot of people want to possess. By contrast, it is remarkable how many religious labels started life as a sneer: the Reformation was full of angry words. ‘Calvinist’ was at first a term of abuse to describe those who believed more or less what John Calvin believed; the nickname gradually forced out the rival contemptuous term ‘Picard’, which referred to Calvin’s birthplace in Noyon in Picardy. No Anabaptists ever described themselves as Anabaptist, since ‘Anabaptist’ means ‘rebaptizer’, and these radical folk believed that their adult baptism was the only authentic Christian initiation, with infant baptism signifying nothing. Even that slippery term ‘Anglican’ appears to have been first spoken with disapproval by King James VI of Scotland, when in 1598 he was trying to convince the Church of Scotland how unenthusiastic he was for the Church of England. One of the most curious usages is the growth of the word ‘Protestant’. It originally related to a specific occasion, in 1529, when at the Holy Roman Empire’s Diet (imperial assembly) held in the city of Speyer, the group of princes and cities who supported the programmes of reformation promoted by Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli found themselves in a voting minority: to keep their solidarity, they issued a ‘Protestatio’, affirming the reforming beliefs that they shared. The label ‘Protestant’ thereafter was part of German or imperial politics for decades, and did not have a wider reference than that. When the coronation of little King Edward VI was being organized in London in 1547, the planners putting in order the procession of dignitaries through the city appointed a place for ‘the Protestants’, by whom they meant the diplomatic representatives of these reforming Germans who were staying in the capital. Only rather later did the word gain a broader reference. It is therefore problematic to use ‘Protestant’ as a simple description for sympathizers with reform in the first half of the sixteenth century, and the reader will find that often in this book I use a different word, ‘evangelical’. That word has the advantage that it was widely used and recognized at the time, and it also encapsulates what was most important to this collection of activists: the good news of the Gospel, in Latinized Greek, the evangelium. Reformation disputes were passionate about words because words were myriad refractions of a God one of whose names was Word: a God encountered in a library of books itself simply called ‘Book’ – the Bible. It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity. They represented the greatest fault-line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided. The fault-line is the business of this book. en historical A member of the Church of England or Church of Ireland, as distinct from Protestant nonconformists or dissenters. en protester dissenter dissident ; nonconformist ; Reformer reformer en Nonconformist<id:Q1144064> Dissenter<id:Q1195178> 1827 [1796] Theobald Wolfe Tone, Memoirs Vol.1 p.64 (Henry Colburn, London) ed. William Theobald Wolfe Tone: To unite the whole people of Ireland; to abolish the memory of all past dissensions; and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter—these were my means. 1893 June 14, Hansard 4th series Vol 13 HC Deb c.1001 MR. SEXTON said, he had always understood that the difference between Protestants and Presbyterians was not a difference of creed, but as to episcopacy and practice. Derived terms en antiprotestant Protestantish protestantize Protestantize Protestantly protoprotestant unprotestant anti-Protestant crypto-Protestant non-Protestant post-Protestant pre-Protestant pseudo-Protestant pro-Protestant Protestantism Prod,Proddy WASP Translations someone who is a member of such a denomination Afrikaans: af protestant Arabic: ar بُرُوتِسْتَانْتِيّ m Hijazi Arabic: acw بروتستانتي m brōtistānti, prōtistānti Bulgarian: bg протестант m Catalan: ca protestant m f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 新教徒 xīnjiàotú Czech: cs protestant m Danish: da protestant c Esperanto: eo protestanto Finnish: fi protestantti French: fr protestant m, fr protestante f Galician: gl protestante m f Georgian: ka პროტესტანტი German: de Protestant m, de Protestantin f Greek: el προτεστάντης m, el διαμαρτυρόμενος m Hindi: hi प्रोटेस्टेंट m Hungarian: hu protestáns Indonesian: id Protestan Irish: ga Protastúnach m Italian: it protestante m f Japanese: ja プロテスタント purotesutanto Khmer: km ប្រូតេស្តង់ Korean: ko 신교도 Latin: la Protestāns m Macedonian: mk протеста́нт m Māori: mi Porotehana Marathi: mr प्रोटेस्टंट Marshallese: mh Būrotijen, mh ri-Būrotijen Norwegian: Bokmål: nb protestant m Nynorsk: nn protestant m Odia: or ପ୍ରୋଟେଷ୍ଟାଣ୍ଟ, or ପ୍ରୋଟେଷ୍ଟାଣ୍ଡ Persian: fa پروتستان porotestân Plautdietsch: pdt Protestant m Polish: pl protestant m, pl protestantka f Portuguese: pt protestante m f Russian: ru протеста́нт m, ru протеста́нтка f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb protestant m Sotho: st moprotestanta Spanish: es protestante m f, es salvacuatro m f Paraguay Swedish: sv protestant c Tagalog: tl Protestante Thai: th โปรเตสแตนต์ Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: ota پروتستان prôtîstân, ota اهل مذاهب پروتستان ehl-i mezheb protestan Ukrainian: uk протеста́нт m, uk протеста́нтка f Vietnamese: vi Tin Lành người Tin Lành Welsh: cy Protestant m Adjective en Christianity Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation. en Christian nonstandard en 1840 Norwich Operative Protestant Association; Released statement The Penny Protestant Operative http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qSkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15&dq=%22more%7Cmost+protestant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E5DPUqzkHYSolAWYw4GwAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20protestant%22&f=false 15 It is not perhaps too much to say, that a more harmonious, a more decorous, a more loyal, a more Protestant, a more Christian meeting, never took place within the walls of our ancient city. en 1855 Napoléon Roussel Catholic and Protestant Nations Compared 1-2 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MoHUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA120&dq=%22more%7Cmost+protestant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E5DPUqzkHYSolAWYw4GwAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20protestant%22&f=false 120 To make this perfectly clear, we shall contrast a few of the most Protestant with a few of the most Roman Catholic counties. en 2004 Paul Freston Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cTRDHNY_xGQC&pg=PA27&dq=%22more%7Cmost+protestant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E5DPUqzkHYSolAWYw4GwAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20protestant%22&f=false 27 For reasons to do with the predominantly Lutheran rather than Calvinist heritage (and to some extent with the postwar division of Germany which hived off the more Protestant East), the participation of Protestants in the CDU has been small. Derived terms en anti-Protestant crypto-Protestant non-Protestant post-Protestant pre-Protestant pseudo-Protestant pro-Protestant Protestant Cay Translations pertaining to these denominatons Afrikaans: af protestantse Arabic: ar بُرُوتِسْتَانْتِيّ Asturian: ast protestante Catalan: ca protestant Esperanto: eo Protestanta Finnish: fi protestanttinen French: fr protestant Galician: gl protestante Georgian: ka პროტესტანტული German: de protestantisch, de evangelisch Greek: el προτεσταντικός m Hungarian: hu protestáns Irish: ga Protastúnach Italian: it protestante Kazakh: kk протестанттық Latin: la protestanticus Latvian: lv protestantisks Māori: mi Porotehana Marathi: mr प्रोटेस्टंट Marshallese: mh Būrotijen Norwegian: Bokmål: nb protestantisk Nynorsk: nn protestantisk Persian: fa پروتستان porotestân Polish: pl protestancki Portuguese: pt protestante Russian: ru протеста́нтский Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb protestantiski, dsb ewangelski Spanish: es protestante Swahili: sw Mprotestanti Swedish: sv protestantisk Tagalog: tl Protestante Thai: th โปรเตสแตนต์ Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: ota پروتستان prôtîstân, ota اهل مذاهب پروتستان ehl-i mezheb protestan Ukrainian: uk протеста́нтський Vietnamese: vi Tin Lành Welsh: cy Protestannaidd en People German Etymology de :af protestieren -ant + From de protestieren -ant, from de la prōtestor. Pronunciation de De-Protestant.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ant 3 Noun m.weak in Protestant person protester Declension m.weak Derived terms de protestantisch de Protestantismus Further reading de Protestantism Plautdietsch Noun pdt noun m plural Protestanten Protestant Welsh Etymology From cy en Protestant. Pronunciation cy /ˈprɔtɛsdant/ [ˈpr̥ʰɔtʰɛstantʰ] Noun m Protestaniaid Protestant Derived terms cy Protestaniaeth Protestanantism cy Protestannaidd Protestant Mutation References