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Humanities > Religion > Christianity > Protestantism

Preferred term

Protestantism  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Adventist, Seventh-Day
  • Adventists, Seventh-Day
  • Anglican Church
  • Baptist Church
  • Church, Anglican
  • Church, Baptist
  • Church, Episcopal
  • Church, Lutheran
  • Church, Methodist
  • Church, Presbyterian
  • Episcopal Church
  • Ethic, Protestant
  • Ethics, Protestant
  • Friends Society
  • Lutheran Church
  • Methodist Church
  • Presbyterian Church
  • Protestant
  • Protestant Ethic
  • Protestant Ethics
  • Protestants
  • Seventh-Day Adventist
  • Seventh Day Adventists
  • Seventh-Day Adventists
  • Society of Friends

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Scope note

  • The name given to all Christian denominations, sects, or groups rising out of the Reformation. Protestant churches generally agree that the principle of authority should be the Scriptures rather than the institutional church or the pope. (from W.L. Reese, Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, 1999)

History note

  • 2003; use CHRISTIANITY 1978-2002; for SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS use CHRISTIANITY 1994-2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D033303

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