Rothenburg has been inhabited for over 2,500 years. It has survived wars, plagues, earthquakes, reformations and wars. This Bavarian Castle town has not changed in the last 300 years--laws have been passed to preserve its medieval charm. more »
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Rothenburg has been inhabited for over 2,500 years. It has survived wars, plagues, earthquakes, reformations and wars. This Bavarian Castle town has not changed in the last 300 years--laws have been passed to preserve its medieval charm. more »
St. Lucia day is an important precursor to the Christmas holiday in several European countries. As a traditional Catholic saint's day, the feast of St. Lucia is rich with religious history and symbolism, and it is a holiday that has withstood commercialism and stayed firm in its origins in modern times. While St. Lucia day is... more »
The Waco siege and the Branch Davidian mass suicide of 1993 have entered the realm of myth and conspiracy theory. Some believe that there was no mass suicide, and that the deaths of the followers of David Koresh were either tragic accidents caused by FBI blundering, or worse, the actual object of the FBI's last assault on the Mount... more »
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Coming on the morning after Mardi Gras, it is for many people a sobering reminder of the 40-day period of purification and renewal that comes before Easter. more »
Good Friday is one of the major landmarks of the Christian calendar, signifying a moment when it was thought all hope was lost. It was the same moment that demonstrated the power of faith, and nearly 2,000 years later, is still viewed with much the same reverence as it was from the moment the significance was understood. more »
The word "pastor" comes from the Latin word for shepherd, or someone who guides and looks out for a community's spiritual and social well being.... more »
Catholics and Protestants don't seem, at first, to have very much in common. Even the Bibles they use seem to have more differences than... more »
Go into a Christian bookstore and you'll find Bibles for teens, children, women, men, the elderly, couples, people in recovery, charismatics and... more »
A traditional Protestant funeral service is an easy thing to do for a Pastor as far as putting it together. There is a simple easy plan when... more »
While New England was home to the Puritans, the southern colonies of America were consistently Anglican. Protestants of all varieties settled in... more »
Protestantism is a branch within Christianity that contains many denominations with differing practices and doctrines. It principally originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, begun with Martin Luthers Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Protestantism is considered to be one of the major divisions within Christianity, together with the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglican traditions. Some groups that are often loosely labeled "Protestant" do not use the term to define themselves and some tend to reject it because of the implication of being non-traditional. Anglicanism, for instance, which gained much of its distinctive identity during and immediately following the English Reformation, is viewed by many of its adherents as not having its origins in the Reformation but as a "Reformed Catholic" tradition. Likewise, many Baptists and Pentecostals do not see themselves as descended from 16th-century Protestant movements. As such, the term Protestantism is often used loosely to denote all non-Roman Catholic varieties of Western Christianity, rather than to denote those churches adhering to the principles described below.
Protestantism is associated with the doctrine of sola scriptura, which maintains that the Bible (rather than church tradition or ecclesiastical interpretations of the Bible)OGorman, Robert T. and Faulkner, Mary. The Complete Idiots Guide to Understanding Catholicism. 2003, page 317. is the final source of authority for all Christians. Another distinctive Protestant doctrine is that of sola fide, which holds that faith alone, rather than good works, is sufficient for the salvation of the believer.
Protestant churches tend not to accept the Catholic and Orthodox doctrine of apostolic succession and associated ideas regarding the sacramental ministry of the clergy, though there are some exceptions to this--mostly in countries such as the southern parts of Europe, which have been affected by differe read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism
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