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Catholic–Protestant theological dissent was birthed in 1517 with the posting of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses which outline ninety-five objections against Catholic doctrine. These included distinction between clergy and laity , the Catholic Church's monopoly on scriptural interpretation , the sale of indulgences , the nature of salvation ...
[1] [2] The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches, [1] [3] while Evangelical Protestant and Black churches are stable or continue to grow. [1] Today, 46.5% of the United States population is either Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, or a Black church attendee.
Protestant Church in Indonesia – 3.1 million [154] United Church in Zambia – 3.0 million [155] Evangelical Church of Cameroon – 2.5 million [156] Christian Evangelical Church in Timor – 2.0 million [157] Protestant Church of Switzerland – 1.9 million [158] Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 1.4 million [159]
Among those who’ve left a religious tradition, 37 percent say they were formerly Catholic, 24 percent were non-evangelical Christian or Protestant, 17 percent belonged to another Christian ...
At the Vatican, a respectful dialogue about reforming the church; in the U.S., a high-profile display of old-school church power. Among rank-and-file American Catholics, Francis is enormously ...
The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941, (1988) in ACLS e-books; Morris, Charles. American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (2011), popular history; Richey, Russell E. et al. eds. United Methodism and American Culture. Vol. 1, Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity (1997); Vol. 2.
The earliest predecessor synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was constituted on August 25, 1748, in Philadelphia. It was known as the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States. The ELCA is the product of a series of mergers and represents the largest (3.0 million members) Lutheran church body in North America.
Even as the U.S. Catholic population has jumped to more than 70 million, driven in part by immigration from Latin America, ever-fewer Catholics are involved in the church’s most important rites.