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The "Third Great Awakening" was a period of religious activism in American history from the late 1850s to the 1900s. It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong sense of social activism. It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth.
2005 United Church of Christ becomes first Protestant denomination to support same-sex marriage in the U.S., and one of the first denominations worldwide to do so; 2006 Legion of Christ begins to rapidly decline following the disgrace of its founder Marcial Maciel
New denominations and organizations formed through further divisions within Protestant churches since the Reformation began. A denomination labeled "Protestant" subscribes to the fundamental Protestant principles—though not always—that is scripture alone, justification by faith alone, and the universal priesthood of believers. [75]
The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust—Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists—became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century. By the 1770s, the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north (where they founded Brown University ), and in the South.
Mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (76%), [30] the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (64%), [30] and the United Church of Christ (46%), [31] [32] have the highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita of any other Christian denomination in the United States, [33] as well as the most high-income earners.
[250] [251] [252] Some Protestant Eastern Churches are in communion with similar Western Protestant Churches. [250] [253] However, Protestant Eastern Christianity within itself, does not constitute a single communion. This is due to the diverse polities, practices, liturgies and orientations of the denominations which fall under this category.
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., mirroring in many ways the broader fight for ...
This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations. It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof. The list is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations ...