A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing its ...

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. By Mark A. Noll. Oxford University Press, 602 pp., $35.00. The least-understood period in American religious history has been the era of the ...

Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward. I was raised in Indonesia as part of a Roman Catholic family. When I first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey minister welcoming members of the KKK into his church in 1923. Bettmann via Getty ...

The first known use of the word "mainline" to describe the largest Protestant denominations and distinguish them from their growing evangelical and fundamentalist counterparts appeared in the New York ...

Protestantism did not spring fully formed from the minds and mouths of the Reformers. When Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in 1517, he was merely ...

In the series opener, historian Tristram Hunt uncovers how a debate about religion in 16th-century Germany sparked a political revolution. From the bloody battlefields of medieval Germany, to the ...

INSTITUTIONS die hard. Especially religious institutions. They take a long time about it. Generations and centuries. The nostalgia of religious habits. The endowments and vested interests. Paganism ...

The 500th anniversary of Lutheranism will pass unmarked in Britain. But it left a toxic and destructive legacy Five hundred years after he challenged the authority of the papacy by nailing his 95 ...

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