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The foundations and streams of doctrine are interpreted through the lenses of various Christian movements which have gained wide acceptance among clergy and laity.Prominent among those in the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st century are Liberal Christianity, Anglo-Catholicism and Evangelicalism, which includes Reformed Anglicanism, along with a smaller number of Arminian ...
The Anglican confessions are considered Protestant, and more specifically, Reformed, [15] and leaders of the English Reformation were influenced by Calvinist rather than Lutheran theologians. Still the Church of England retained elements of Catholicism such as bishops and vestments , unlike continental Reformed churches , and thus was sometimes ...
In the first half of the 17th century, the Church of England and the associated Church of Ireland were presented by some Anglican divines as comprising a distinct Christian tradition, with theologies, structures, and forms of worship representing a different kind of middle way, or via media, originally between Lutheranism and Calvinism, [12 ...
Protestant beliefs about salvation: This table summarizes the classical views of three Protestant beliefs about salvation. [1] Topic Calvinism Lutheranism Arminianism; Human will: Total depravity: [2] Humanity possesses "free will", [3] but it is in bondage to sin, [4] until it is "transformed". [5]
In the 16th-century context, the term mainly covers four major movements: Lutheranism, Calvinism, the Radical Reformation, and the Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Since the late 20th century , historians often use the plural of the term to emphasize that the Reformation was not a uniform and coherent historical phenomenon but the ...
Anglicanism or Episcopalianism has referred to itself as the via media between Lutheranism and Reformed Christianity, [89] as well as between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. [90] [91] The majority of Anglicans consider themselves part of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church within the Anglican Communion.
Broadly speaking Protestantism has four streams: Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and Anglicanism. While all of these Christian groups from the Church of the East on, have their own subsequent splits, the fragmentation in Protestantism has been extreme, with tens of thousands of denominations.
Lutherans believe in the Trinity. Lutherans believe in the Trinity, rejecting the idea that the Father and God the Son are merely faces of the same person, stating that both the Old Testament and the New Testament show them to be two distinct persons. [100] Lutherans believe the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. [101]