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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]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland – 3.5 million [94] [95] Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – 2.8 million [96] [97] Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria – 2.2 million [98] Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea – 1.8 million [99] Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod – 1.7 million [100]
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.
Calvinism, also known as the Reformed tradition or Reformed Protestantism is a movement which broke from the Catholic Church in the 16th century. Reformed Christianity is represented in the Continental Reformed , Presbyterian , and Congregationalist traditions, along with Reformed Anglican and Reformed Baptist denominations (the latter two are ...
Calvinism Lutheranism Arminianism; Human will: Total depravity: [18] Humanity possesses "free will", [19] but it is in bondage to sin, [20] until it is "transformed". [21] Total depravity: [18] [22] [23] Humanity possesses free will in regard to "goods and possessions", but is sinful by nature and unable to contribute to its own salvation. [24 ...
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 1517. [1]
King Frederick William III of Prussia united both major Protestant confessions in his domains into the Prussian Union of churches in 1817, allowing congregations to maintain Lutheran or Calvinist confession, or declare their union, also in Bremen (1877), Hesse-Cassel (1817), and Hesse-Darmstadt (1832) Reformed and Lutherans form a union merely ...
The Berlin Cathedral, a United Protestant cathedral in Berlin. Protestantism is a branch of Christianity [a] that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.