As a lapsed protestant agnostic with Buddhist tendencies I cannot overly mourn his passing. |
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What really get on my nerve is they all call theirself protestant. |
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Drawing on Max Weber's protestant ethic thesis, Kollner examines the intersection between Russia's economic transformation and religious revival since perestroika. |
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The Plantation of Ulster allowed English and Scottish Protestant candidates in as representatives of the newly formed boroughs in planted areas. |
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The German Prince Philip of Hesse saw potential in creating an alliance between Zwingli and Luther, seeing strength in a united Protestant front. |
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Bishop Richard Davies and dissident Protestant cleric John Penry introduced Calvinist theology to Wales. |
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Between 1520 and 1550, printing presses in Spain were tightly controlled, and any books of Protestant teaching were prohibited. |
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They found this in the teaching of the Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther. |
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A significant Protestant minority remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith. |
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Word of the Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s, but never caught on. |
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Not only was the Church highly aggressive in seeking out heresy and suppressing it, but there was a shortage of Protestant leadership. |
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The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant church in Italy. |
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He was the key figure of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, as he was its founder and its first superintendent. |
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There is no universal agreement on the exact or approximate date the Protestant Reformation ended. |
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For this reason, the Protestant Reformation is said to have started in England with this act. |
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He was more devout in his faith, and persecution of Protestant subjects ceased. |
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This translation was in a language and dialect specific to the English people and to their Protestant religion. |
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James I fulfilled the efforts of Protestant reformers who had been supporting the distribution of Bibles in common language for decades. |
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The peasant Irish population was intended to be relocated to live near garrisons and Protestant churches. |
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The Protestant clerics imported were usually all monoglot English speakers, whereas the native population were usually monoglot Gaelic speakers. |
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The massacres had a devastating and lasting impact on the Ulster Protestant population. |
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It seemed that James's reign would be short and the throne would soon return to Protestant hands. |
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For the most part, however, the Highlands are considered predominantly Protestant, loyal to the Church of Scotland. |
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Thereafter, the largely English Protestant Ascendancy dominated Irish government and landholding. |
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From Grattan in the 1770s to Parnell up to 1890, nearly all the leaders of Irish separatism were Protestant nationalists. |
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During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. |
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During the Marian persecutions, three women, the Guernsey Martyrs, were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs. |
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The party was established in 1971 by Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal and other members of the Protestant Unionist Party. |
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And its establishment arguably stemmed from insecurities of the Ulster Protestant working class. |
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From the beginning, the party had a strong association with the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal organisation. |
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He was one of the group of Protestant churchmen who met with Provisional IRA officers in Feakle, County Clare to try to broker peace. |
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Like the mother church, the Methodist Church in Ghana was established by people of Protestant background. |
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The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named Rev. |
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There are also evangelical Protestant churches in the country of the Methodist tradition like the Wesleyan Church of the Philippines, Inc. |
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A few years later the principal of the school created a Methodist university, the first and only Protestant university in Mexico. |
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The effect was akin to the individualistic trends present in Europe during the Protestant Reformation. |
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The Orthodox Church does not subscribe to the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura. |
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At that point, many in the then church in Scotland broke with Rome, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by John Knox. |
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For historical and cultural reasons, the Church of Ireland is generally identified as a Protestant church. |
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Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Protestant Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. |
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Seven years after their engagement, on 19 June 1843 they got married in a Protestant church in Kreuznach. |
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With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numbers of Southern German towns closed their brothels in an attempt to eradicate prostitution. |
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The most common Protestant denominations are Pentecostal and Evangelical ones. |
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During the Protestant Reformation, the Finns gradually converted to Lutheranism. |
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William's successor was Mary's sister Anne, who had no surviving children and so the Protestant succession seemed in doubt. |
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It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation that took place from the sixteenth century. |
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Their martyrdom stirred resentment of the French and inspiring additional martyrs for the Protestant cause. |
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The Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 adopted a Protestant confession of faith, rejecting papal jurisdiction and the mass. |
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James was brought up a Protestant, but resisted Presbyterianism and the independence of the Kirk. |
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Traditional Protestant historiography tended to stress the corruption and unpopularity of the late Medieval Scottish church. |
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He administered a Protestant communion and carried out a preaching tour of the privy kirks. |
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The regent responded by sending troops to restore order and Glencairn led a force to defend the town's new Protestant status. |
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During the ensuing Siege of Leith, French troops fortified the port and town of Leith against an English and Scottish Protestant force. |
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On his return to Scotland, Knox led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Protestant nobility. |
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The Protestant nobles and others, including Knox, were taken prisoner and forced to row in the French galleys. |
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In the pulpit he preached Protestant doctrines with great effect as his congregation grew. |
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With the country no longer safe for Protestant preachers, Knox left for the Continent in January 1554 on the advice of friends. |
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With a Protestant on the throne, the English refugees in Geneva prepared to return home. |
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Two days after Knox arrived in Edinburgh, he proceeded to Dundee where a large number of Protestant sympathisers had gathered. |
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With Protestant reinforcements arriving from neighbouring counties, the Queen Regent retreated to Dunbar. |
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On 30 June, the Protestant Lords of the Congregation occupied Edinburgh, though they were able to hold it for only a month. |
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Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills. |
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When he returned to Edinburgh, he found the Protestant nobles divided over what to do with Mary. |
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The Protestant reformer John Knox preached against Mary, condemning her for hearing Mass, dancing, and dressing too elaborately. |
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Even the one significant later addition to the council, Lord Ruthven in December 1563, was another Protestant whom Mary personally disliked. |
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Elizabeth had succeeded in maintaining a Protestant government in Scotland, without either condemning or releasing her fellow sovereign. |
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Each group assimilated into the dominant English, Protestant, commercial, and political culture, albeit with local variations. |
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The English and the Germans brought along multiple Protestant denominations. |
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In 1764, Voltaire successfully intervened and secured the release of Claude Chamont for the crime of attending Protestant services. |
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This centralising and sharing of resources was previously unknown within the Protestant churches in Scotland, but later became the norm. |
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Situated around the town of St Andrews are cobblestone markings denoting where Protestant martyrs were burnt at the stake. |
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The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland excluded most of Ulster's population from having any Civil power on religious grounds. |
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For this reason, up until the 19th century, there was considerable disharmony between Dissenters and the ruling Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. |
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This table summarizes the classical views of three Protestant beliefs about salvation. |
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Traditionally fans of rivals Rangers came from Scottish or Northern Irish Protestant backgrounds and support British Unionism. |
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A Protestant martyr, his life and death are recorded in John Foxe's famous book of martyrs. |
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St Fin Barre's Cathedral serves the Protestant faith and is possibly the more famous of the two. |
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Oneness Pentecostalism subscribes to the common Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura. |
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At the time of the Act of Union in 1800, the Protestant community was divided over whether to support the Act. |
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Political Unionism crystallised around the Protestant areas in the northern part of Ireland. |
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Most of them settled in Illinois with financial and physical aid of the American Protestant Society, headquartered in New York City. |
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Another missionary from Scotland, William Hepburn Hewitson, took on Protestant ministerial activities in Madeira. |
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Thus, Protestant bibles do not include the books within the Old Testament but have often included them in a separate section. |
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Thus the respect accorded to apocryphal books varied between Protestant denominations. |
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The Protestant Reformation dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. |
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Since 1795 Rotterdam has hosted the chief congregation of the liberal Protestant brotherhood of Remonstrants. |
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In line with Protestant procedure of that time, all churches were converted to Protestant worship. |
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The Protestant King of the Netherlands, William I rapidly started the industrialisation of the southern parts of the Kingdom. |
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It was during this time that the Inquisitions and Protestant reformations took place. |
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When the US took over Louisiana, Americans from the Protestant South entered the territory and began to impose their norms. |
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To many secular rulers the Protestant reformation was a welcome opportunity to expand their wealth and influence. |
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While officers of the reorganised force were Protestant, membership of the other ranks was now made available to members of all denominations. |
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The region has been strongly Protestant since the time of the Protestant Reformation. |
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The Protestant reformer John Calvin admired Gregory and declared in his Institutes that Gregory was the last good pope. |
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Together, these member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany gather a substantial part of the Protestant population in Germany. |
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Simultaneously, the Protestant Reformation set up Protestant churches primarily in Germany, Scandinavia and England. |
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Simultaneously, the Protestant Reformation under German Martin Luther questioned Papal authority. |
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The dominant intellectual currents of the Enlightenment promoted rationalism, and most Protestant leaders preached a sort of deism. |
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The early modern period saw religious conflict resulting from the Reformation and the introduction of Protestant state churches in each country. |
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The Protestant population was given two years to settle affairs before leaving the city. |
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Their successor, Elizabeth I, consolidated the new and increasingly Protestant Church of England. |
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Article 2 provided for the succession of the House of Hanover, and for Protestant succession as set out in the English Act of Settlement. |
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During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk. |
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Churches of the Protestant Reformation, however, rejected prayer to the saints, largely on the basis of the sole mediatorship of Christ. |
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Adventist, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and other Protestant confessions arose in the following centuries. |
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Burnet was a bishop chronicling how England became Protestant, and his use of the term is invariably pejorative. |
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Northumberland was furiously ambitious, and aimed to secure Protestant uniformity while making himself rich with land and money in the process. |
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Northumberland married Jane to his youngest son Guildford Dudley, allowing himself to get the most out of a necessary Protestant succession. |
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Protestant Reformers still faced persecution, particularly over objections to Henry's annulment. |
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These were based on the older liturgy but influenced by Protestant principles. |
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Soon after, Elizabeth reintroduced the Protestant faith but in a more moderate manner. |
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Edward was a precocious child who had been brought up as a Protestant, but was initially of little account politically. |
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At the same time, she had observed the turmoil brought about by Edward's introduction of radical Protestant reforms. |
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During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. |
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One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. |
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The defeat of the armada was a potent propaganda victory, both for Elizabeth and for Protestant England. |
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When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support. |
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Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age. |
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The picture of Elizabeth painted by her Protestant admirers of the early 17th century has proved lasting and influential. |
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Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. |
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He took part in court life and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I because of his efforts at increasing the Protestant Church in Ireland. |
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With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned the English Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war. |
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In the Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by John Knox. |
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James VI remained Protestant, taking care to maintain his hopes of succession to the English throne. |
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The rising featured widespread assaults on the Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. |
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Some even sought to confer the Crown on the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. |
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They were also to maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed faith established by law. |
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The Williamite victory in Ireland is still commemorated by the Orange Order for preserving British and Protestant dominance in the country. |
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They believed the Duke, if allowed to inherit the throne, would endanger the Protestant religion, liberty, and property. |
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The Whigs primarily advocated the supremacy of Parliament, while calling for the toleration for Protestant dissenters. |
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He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. |
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James's Jesuit confessor, Edward Petre, was a particular object of Protestant ire. |
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On 30 June 1688, a group of seven Protestant nobles invited the Prince of Orange to come to England with an army. |
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The House of Commons, with a Whig majority, quickly resolved that the throne was vacant, and that it was safer if the ruler was Protestant. |
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William encouraged the passage of the Toleration Act 1689, which guaranteed religious toleration to Protestant nonconformists. |
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Wellesley was born in Dublin, belonging to the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. |
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Methodism and other Protestant churches have had a major presence in Wales. |
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The Protestant Ascendancy did not however benefit them much, as the English espoused the Anglican Church. |
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In Scotland the main Protestant body is the Church of Scotland which is Presbyterian. |
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In election after election, Protestant ministers rallied their congregations to the Liberal ticket. |
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They invited William of Orange, a Protestant who had married Mary, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde to invade England and claim the throne. |
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Most are held by Protestant fraternities such as the Orange Order, and Ulster loyalist marching bands. |
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As a result of the efforts of reformers such as John Knox, a Protestant ascendancy was established. |
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She fled to England, and the Crown went to her infant son James VI, who was brought up as a Protestant. |
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Those who surrendered were also expected to follow English law and customs, speak English, and convert to the Protestant Anglican Church. |
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In 1552 Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled again, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlands. |
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Some Protestant denominations do have a worldwide scope and distribution of membership, while others are confined to a single country. |
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The German word evangelisch means Protestant, and is different from the German evangelikal, which refers to churches shaped by Evangelicalism. |
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The English word evangelical usually refers to Evangelical Protestant churches, and therefore not to Protestantism as a whole. |
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Initially, Protestant became a general term to mean any adherent to the Reformation movement in Germany and was taken up by Lutherans. |
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The desire was for the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant churches of Europe, especially Geneva. |
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It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism. |
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In 1904, a Protestant revival in Wales had tremendous impact on the local population. |
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Some Protestant denominations are less accepting of other denominations, and the basic orthodoxy of some is questioned by most of the others. |
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United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations. |
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Around the world, each united or uniting church comprises a different mix of predecessor Protestant denominations. |
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The chart below shows the mutual relations and historical origins of the main Protestant denominational families, or their parts. |
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Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity. |
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There are many other Protestant denominations that do not fit neatly into the mentioned branches, and are far smaller in membership. |
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Nonconforming Protestants along with the Protestant refugees from continental Europe were the primary founders of the United States of America. |
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Protestant churches reject the idea of a celibate priesthood and thus allow their clergy to marry. |
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All major Protestant churches were represented in the First and Second Continental Congresses. |
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In contrast, the Evangelical wing of Anglicanism is closer to Protestant thinking. |
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Several provinces of the Anglican Communion in Asia have merged with Protestant churches. |
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Accepting women Protestant ministers would also make unity with the See of Rome more difficult. |
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Under Henry's son, King Edward VI, the Church of England became more influenced by the European Protestant movement. |
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A further penalty of ten pounds a month was inflicted on anyone keeping a schoolmaster who did not attend the Protestant service. |
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While Charles remained firmly Protestant, he was personally drawn towards a consciously 'High Church' Anglicanism. |
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The Church of England had not yet appointed a United States bishop to what would become the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. |
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The worship resembles the church services of other Protestant denominations, although in most cases does not include any Eucharist service. |
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As late as the 1980s, imprisonment and exile were still employed to destroy the remaining Protestant churches. |
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In the mainstream of the Protestant Reformation there is the Biblical Unitarian Movement. |
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More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. |
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He concluded that the idea that medieval revels were pagan in origin is a legacy of the Protestant Reformation. |
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Some schools remain, as private schools catering largely for Protestant students. |
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Later, the main duty of universities in most Protestant countries was the training of future civil servants. |
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Nearly a century later, the university was at the centre of a Protestant schism. |
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The foreign powers largely distanced themselves from the plotters, calling them atheists and Protestant heretics. |
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The church continued to resist, and by early 1937 Hitler abandoned his hope of uniting the Protestant churches. |
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Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused the attentions of a Protestant clergyman. |
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The Protestant Reformation and rise of modernity in the early 16th century entailed the start of a series of changes in the Corpus Christianum. |
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Religious disagreements between various leading figures led to the emergence of rival Protestant churches. |
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Subsequent Protestant denominations generally trace their roots back to the initial reforming movements. |
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The effort sought to prevent further damage to the Church and her faithful at the hands of the newly formed Protestant denominations. |
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The early modern period was initiated by the Protestant Reformation and the collapse of the unity of the medieval Western Church. |
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What was added to Chaucer often helped represent him favourably to Protestant England. |
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The myth of the Protestant Chaucer continues to have a lasting impact on a large body of Chaucerian scholarship. |
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As with the Chaucer editions, it was critically significant to English Protestant identity and included Chaucer in its project. |
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Later that year, he joined Sir John Norris in the Battle of Zutphen, fighting for the Protestant cause against the Spanish. |
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In 1656 Marvell and Dutton travelled to France, to visit the Protestant Academy of Saumur. |
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A source has interpreted him as broadly Protestant, if not always easy to locate in a more precise religious category. |
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John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. |
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Shelley's ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, near an ancient pyramid in the city walls. |
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Wells's parents had a turbulent marriage, owing primarily to his mother being a Protestant and his father a freethinker. |
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Stuart was the son of James II, who had been deposed in 1688 and replaced by his Protestant relations. |
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Francis I of France sought allies from all quarters, including with German Protestant princes and Muslims. |
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The growth of the system of indulgences later was a catalyst for the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century. |
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It is, however, generally discouraged in some Protestant branches such as Calvinism, where the practice is considered a form of idolatry. |
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The Church of Denmark took over education after the Protestant Reformation. |
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In addition, the Protestant population was more prominent in Ulster, with a majority in four counties. |
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Significant Protestant denominations are the Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church. |
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Opposite but comparatively high levels are seen in the predominantly Protestant east Belfast. |
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These settlers, who had a British Protestant identity, would form the ruling class of future British administrations in Ireland. |
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A new Plantation was started, made up of Protestant settlers from Scotland and England. |
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The rising was marked by widespread assaults on the British Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. |
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The new English Protestant ruling class was known as the Protestant Ascendancy. |
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Northern Ireland had a majority Protestant population and opted out as expected. |
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Thomas Davis, a prominent Protestant Irish nationalist who founded the Young Ireland movement, identified the Irish as a Celtic nation. |
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With the Scottish Reformation, Scotland was declared Protestant, and allied itself with Protestant England instead. |
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It was an age of expansion and exploration abroad, while at home the Protestant Reformation became entrenched in the national mindset. |
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Following her deposition in 1567, her infant son James VI was raised as a Protestant. |
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The Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as sola scriptura and sola fide. |
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The Protestant reformers were unanimous in agreement and this understanding of prophecy furnished importance to their deeds. |
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Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant groups throughout Europe. |
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His embracement of Popery beginning to make a noise, he decoyed several of the most eminent Protestant clergymen in France to give assurances of the contrary. |
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With approximately 80 million adherents, it constitutes the third most common Protestant confession after historically Pentecostal denominations and Anglicanism. |
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In the same year, 1560, John Knox realised his goal of seeing Scotland become a Protestant nation and the Scottish parliament revoke papal authority in Scotland. |
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A modern Protestant worship band leading a contemporary worship session. |
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With the Protestant Reformation in 1536, Danish also became the language of religion, which sparked a new interest in using Danish as a literary language. |
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The English succession was provided for by the English Act of Settlement 1701, which ensured that the monarch of England would be a Protestant member of the House of Hanover. |
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Unitarianism is sometimes considered Protestant due to its origins in the Reformation and strong cooperation with other Protestants since the 16th century. |
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Following the Treaty of Berwick, support from England finally arrived and by the end of March, a significant English army joined the Scottish Protestant forces. |
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The survivors, including chaplain John Knox, were condemned to be galley slaves, helping to create resentment of the French and martyrs for the Protestant cause. |
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The humanist concern with widening education was shared by the Protestant reformers, with a desire for a godly people replacing the aim of having educated citizens. |
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Then in 1558 the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne, survived the 1570 bull Regnans in Excelsis, and all but one of the following monarchs were Anglican. |
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In 1880, a radical young Protestant landowner, Charles Stewart Parnell became chairman, and in the 1880 general election, the League won 63 seats. |
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The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history. |
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Members of mainline Protestant denominations have played leadership roles in many aspects of American life, including politics, business, science, the arts, and education. |
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Another consequence of the Protestant understanding of man is that the believers, in gratitude for their election and redemption in Christ, are to follow God's commandments. |
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In 1540, Henry married for the fourth time to the daughter of a Protestant German duke, Anne of Cleves, thus forming an alliance with the Protestant German states. |
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Henry was reluctant to marry again, especially to a Protestant, but he was persuaded when the court painter Hans Holbein the Younger showed him a flattering portrait of her. |
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Meanwhile, Edward was brought up as a strict and devout Protestant by numerous tutors, including Bishop Richard Cox, John Belmain, and Sir John Cheke. |
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On 29 July 1565 when Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, some of the Protestant nobles, including James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, rose up in rebellion. |
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In other historical Protestant strongholds such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary, it remains one of the most popular religions. |
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According to some, Russia is another country to see a Protestant revival. |
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Irreligion in Germany is strongest in the former East Germany, which used to be predominantly Protestant before state atheism, and major metropolitan areas. |
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The Church of England affirms the Protestant Reformation principle that scripture contains all things necessary to salvation and is the final arbiter in doctrinal matters. |
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The low church party is more Protestant in both ceremony and theology. |
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Because of the lack of police reaction to the attacks, nationalists saw the RUC, almost wholly Protestant, as backing the loyalists and allowing the attacks to occur. |
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Towards the end of the 18th century the entirely Protestant Irish Parliament attained a greater degree of independence from the British Parliament than it had previously held. |
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The parades are held to commemorate William of Orange's victory in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, which secured the Protestant Ascendancy and British rule in Ireland. |
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For example, the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such as the use of Thomas Cranmer's new Book of Common Prayer. |
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Numerous other Protestant denominations have a presence in Aberdeen. |
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There was perennial trouble from Border Reivers, but Elizabeth was inclined to forgive even their depredations rather than pick a quarrel with her Protestant neighbour. |
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James was taken to Stirling Castle to be raised as a Protestant. |
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It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. |
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The growth of secular authority was further aided by the decline of the papacy with the Western Schism and the coming of the Protestant Reformation. |
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Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations. |
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By 1848, the American Protestant Society raised money and sent the Rev. |
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Rather than as a brave defender of the Protestant nations against Spain and the Habsburgs, she is more often regarded as cautious in her foreign policies. |
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In 1618, beginning with the Defenestration of Prague, Austria and the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, embarked on a campaign against the Protestant Union and Bohemia. |
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Clarke opened Bulgaria's first Protestant primary school for boys in Plovdiv in 1860, followed three years later by a primary school for girls in Stara Zagora. |
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In 1345, an alleged Eucharistic miracle in the Kalverstraat rendered the city an important place of pilgrimage until the adoption of the Protestant faith. |
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The growth of tensions between the EIC and the local religious and cultural groups grew in the 19th century as the Protestant revival grew in Great Britain. |
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Repulsing the Spanish naval force may have given heart to the Protestant cause across Europe and the belief that God was behind the Protestant cause. |
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In accordance with the religious beliefs of most of the Scottish ruling class, James was brought up as a member of the Protestant Church of Scotland. |
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It was only in 1700 that modern bilingual Bibles appeared in which the Authorized Version was compared with counterpart Dutch and French Protestant vernacular Bibles. |
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He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. |
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Religion was not a factor, since both sides were Protestant. |
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Charles was crowned on 2 February 1626 at Westminster Abbey, but without his wife at his side because she refused to participate in a Protestant religious ceremony. |
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Reformers were given hope by the accession, in England, of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth in 1558, which created a confessional frontier in Great Britain. |
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The church printed Bibles and Prayer Books in Gaelic, and some churches, and some Protestant clergymen like William King of Dublin, held services in the language. |
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Other Protestant movements grew up along lines of mysticism or humanism, sometimes breaking from Rome or from the Protestants, or forming outside of the churches. |
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He became an Independent Puritan after undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. |
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With the help of Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Cromwell persuaded the Protestant Royalist troops in Cork to change sides and fight with the Parliament. |
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By March 1566, Darnley had entered into a secret conspiracy with Protestant lords, including the nobles who had rebelled against Mary in the Chaseabout Raid. |
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Protestant conspirators formulated the Rye House Plot, a plan to murder him and the Duke of York as they returned to London after horse races in Newmarket. |
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Protestant politicians such as Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, Algernon Sydney, Lord William Russell and the Duke of Monmouth were implicated in the plot. |
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On 6 May, Mary and Bothwell returned to Edinburgh and on 15 May, at either Holyrood Palace or Holyrood Abbey, they were married according to Protestant rites. |
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It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. |
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Grafton was an ardent Protestant and sanitized the earlier story. |
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A distinguished linguist, philosopher and poet, he had trained in Paris and studied law at Poitiers, before moving to Geneva and developing an interest in Protestant theology. |
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Martin Bucer was a prominent Protestant reformer in the region. |
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A firebomb killed an elderly Protestant widow, Matilda Gould. |
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The stock of Welsh surnames is very small, which is partly attributable to the reduction in the variety of baptismal names after the Protestant Reformation. |
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When William arrived on 5 November 1688, many Protestant officers, including Churchill, defected and joined William, as did James's own daughter, Princess Anne. |
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James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain. |
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Knox did not record when or how he was converted to the Protestant faith, but perhaps the key formative influences on Knox were Patrick Hamilton and George Wishart. |
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The Protestant movement of the 16th century occurred under the protection of the Electorate of Saxony, an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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British Protestant missionaries who travelled around the globe often in advance of soldiers and civil servants spread the Anglican Communion to all continents. |
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He could not be made an official minister because he was a Protestant. |
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The latter church was a result of union between the Methodist Protestant Church and the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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The numerous Protestant groups in the world, if taken all together, outnumber the Orthodox, but they differ theologically and do not form a single communion. |
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While Rough was preaching in the parish church on the Protestant principle of the popular election of a pastor, he proposed Knox to the congregation for that office. |
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During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk, which was strongly Presbyterian in outlook. |
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These two things would later lead to the Protestant Reformation. |
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In Hungary, the largest Protestant denomination is represented by Reformed Church in Hungary, which is a Calvinist strand, established in 1567, Debrecen. |
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Systematic efforts to develop an alphabetic representation of Cantonese began with the arrival of Protestant missionaries in China early in the nineteenth century. |
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In early May 1593 several bills were posted about London threatening Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands who had settled in the city. |
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Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals be converted to Protestant. |
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After the French king Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal in 1685 in the Edict of Fontainebleau, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled to England. |
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As for the Protestant towns, unity of belief was also far from standard. |
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It was meant to establish a loyal British Protestant colony in Ireland's most rebellious region and to sever Gaelic Ulster's links with Gaelic Scotland. |
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A strong Presbyterian following had developed, but the Church of Scotland did not agree with King Charles I's expectations of the Protestant religion. |
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These views were bound up in Protestant views of the Millennium, which some sects, such as the Fifth Monarchists predicted would arrive in England. |
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With the Protestant Reformation and the introduction of printing, a standard language was developed which was based on the educated Copenhagen dialect. |
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This scheme was intended to confiscate all the lands of the Gaelic Irish nobility in Ulster and to settle the province with Protestant Scottish and English colonists. |
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The majority of the Protestant colonists throughout Ireland but particularly in Ulster, fought on the Williamite side in the war against the Jacobites. |
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The term Protestant later acquired a broader sense, referring to a member of any Western church which subscribed to the main Protestant principles. |
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The wars only concluded when Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, promising official toleration of the Protestant minority, but under highly restricted conditions. |
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