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Protestantism
Overview
a branch of Christianity that emerged following the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and rejects papal supremacy
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Protestantism is the grand root from which our whole subsequent European History branches out. For the spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal.
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Names Protestantism several times; states what Protestantism is.
If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect. Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
The chapter “AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM.” is titled for Protestantism; the author is tied to Protestantism in the knowledge graph.
Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. 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. This religion, under a variety of denominations agreeing in nothing but…
Edmund Burke, Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
The author is tied to Protestantism in the knowledge graph; names Protestantism twice.
Philosophers who discussed Protestantism
- Edmund Burke
- Georg Simmel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Paul Carus
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Ernst Troeltsch
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Tomáš Masaryk
- Hans Reichenbach
- Jürgen Habermas
- Slavoj Žižek
- John Amos Comenius
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Max Weber
- Marshall McLuhan
- Baron d'Holbach
- Augustine of Hippo
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Antoine Arnauld
- Paul Natorp
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Evangelicalism
- Christian existentialism
- Islamic revival
- Jesus
- Consent of the governed
- God in Christianity
- French Revolution
- Matthew Arnold
- Germany
- German language
- Greek language
- Anglicanism
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Glorious Revolution
- Geneva
- Arminianism
- Annales school
- Holy See
- French Wars of Religion
- Immanuel Kant
- Rodney Stark
- Industrial Revolution
- Waldensians
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.