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These Finished Work Pentecostals (also known as "Baptistic" or "Reformed" Pentecostals because many converts were originally drawn from Baptist and Presbyterian backgrounds) teach that a person is initially sanctified at the moment of conversion. After conversion, the believer grows in grace through a lifelong process of progressive sanctification.
Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million [167] Reformed Church in Romania – 0.5 million [168] Toraja Church – 0.4 million [169] Reformed Church of France – 0.4 million [170] Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa – 0.3 million [171] Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera – 0.3 million [172]
While early Pentecostals were often marginalized within the larger Christian community, Pentecostal beliefs began penetrating the mainline Protestant denominations from 1960 onward and the Catholic Church from 1967. [25] This adoption of Pentecostal beliefs by those in the historic churches became known as the charismatic movement.
Christian Reformed Church in North America - around 245,217 members - Evangelical, Conservative, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic, Egalitarian (women can assume any church office) Evangelical Reformed Church in America - Conservative, Evangelical , Calvinist , Orthodox, Dutch Reformed
[52] [53] Protestantism includes diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists (inclusive of the Holiness movement), Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, [52] [16] [17] and Unitarians (depending on one's classification scheme) are all a part of the same family but have distinct ...
The Reformed tradition is represented by the Continental Reformed, Congregationalist, Anglican, and Reformed Baptist traditions. They teach the doctrines of predestination and limited atonement. The view of atonement taught by these denominations is known as penal substitution. With respect to salvation, the Reformed are monergist.
Organizationally, the Reformed Churches in Switzerland remained separate units until today (the Reformed Church of the Canton Zurich, the Reformed Church of the Canton Berne, etc.), the German part more in the Zwingli tradition, in the French part more in the Calvin tradition. Today they are members of the Federation of Swiss Protestant ...