PROTESTANT UNION

in German history, an alliance of German Protestant leaders of cities and states, founded in 1608 for the avowed purpose of defending the lands, person, and rights of each individual member. Also known as the Evangelical League, it came into being after the Holy Roman emperor attempted (1607) to reestablish Roman Catholicism in Donauwörth and after a majority of the Reichstag, meeting in Augsburg, declared that renewal of the religious peace of 1555 (see Augsburg, Peace of) should be conditional on the restoration of all church lands appropriated by the Protestant princes after 1552. A Catholic League, headed by Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria, was formed shortly afterward. The Protestant Union was weakened from the start by the absence of such powerful Protestant princes as the elector of Saxony, and it never operated very effectively. In 1621, three years after the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, the union went out of existence. In French history, the alliance (1573–74) of Huguenot cities, districts, and nobles in the Wars of Religion is also known as the Protestant Union.

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The Cross in the Dark Valley: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1931-1945
Book by A. Hamish Ion; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999
Subjects: Missions, Canadian--East Asia--History, Missions, Canadian--Japan--History, Missions--East Asia, Missions--Japan, Protestant Churches--Missions--East Asia--History, Protestant Churches--Missions--Japan--History
...to bring about church union among Protestant denominations. The movement...necessary for Japanese Protestants to have a union agreement in order to...be made toward church union. The clear test of Protestant will to create a united...
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The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941
Book by Donald Meyer; Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1988
Subjects: Christianity And Politics--History Of Doctrines--20th Century, Liberalism (Religion)--United States--History--20th Century, Niebuhr, Reinhold--1892-1971, Protestant Churches--United States--History--20th Century, Sociology, Christian--United States--History Of Doctrines--20th Century, United States--Church History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Relations--20th Century, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century
...expanded his post at Union Theological Seminary...cockpit in liberal Protestantism, while several...general, organic Protestant union. Such an invitation...conviction that union of righteousness...already exist in the Protestant churches themselves...
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The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941
Book by Donald B. Meyer; University of California Press, 1961
Subjects: Christianity And Politics, Church And Social Problems--United States, Niebuhr, Reinhold--1892-1971, Protestant Churches--United States
...general, organic Protestant union. Such an invitation...conviction that union of righteousness...already exist in the Protestant churches themselves...in 1918 crying "union" over the telegraph...fervor, in fact, Protestantism was at the beginning...
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In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible
Book by Peter J. Thuesen; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bible--English--Versions--History, Bible--Translating--History, Bible--United States--History, Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines
...throughout the ages, Protestant union was the only alternative...Toward the goal of union, Schaff served...Alliance, a pan-Protestant organization formed...Although most Protestants had long been...American Bible Union, a Baptist organization...
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The Protestant Faith
Book by George W. Forell; Prentice-Hall, 1960
Subjects: Creeds, Protestant Churches--Doctrines, Protestantism, Theology, Doctrinal
-i- -ii- The Protestant Faith By George W. Forell 1960...AMERICA 73148-C To my former students Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Agnostic at the...privilege to teach a course on the Protestant Faith in one of our state universities...
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The Drive Toward Protestant Union in Early Eighteenth-Century Geneva: Jean-Alphonse Turrettini on the "Fundamental Articles" of the Faith
Journal article by Martin I. Klauber; Church History, Vol. 61, 1992
Subjects: Church History
The Drive Toward Protestant Union in Early Eighteenth-Century Geneva...nonrestrictive and make possible a pan-Protestant union. The term is used in a technical...their mutual interests in a pan-Protestant union. 6 The Reformed use of fundamental...
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The Eucharistic Presence of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Protestant Popular Piety: Toward a Catholic-Protestant Rapprochement?
Journal article by Tony Maan; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 44, 2009
Subjects: Catholic theology--Analysis, Christian union--Analysis, Church--Analysis, Church--Unity, Ecumenical movement--History, Protestant theology--Analysis, Theology, Catholic--Analysis, Theology, Protestant--Analysis
...Toward a Catholic-Protestant Rapprochement...of the Supper and union with God years before...released into ecstatic union; it was also a moment...the advent of the Protestant Reformation. From...Sixteenth-century Protestant documents such as...tactile, and spiritual union between Christ and...
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Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands
Journal article by Leo J. Koffeman; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 54, 2002
Subjects: Christian union--Planning, Churches, Protestant--Netherlands, Netherlands--Religious aspects
...why the name Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands...why a fast pace in the union process is favoured from...early years of the new union. Also a procedure might...website of the church union process: www.unitingprotestantchurches...officer of the Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands...
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Protestant Restructuring in the Canadian City: Church and Mission in the Industrial Working-Class District of Griffintown, Montreal
Journal article by Rosalyn Trigger; Urban History Review, Vol. 31, 2002
Subjects: Church history, Churches, Protestant--History, Montreal, Quebec--History
...in other cities, evangelical Protestants in Montreal initially attempted...decided to inaugurate their own Union City Mission. The Union City Mission was short-lived...While the failure of the Union City Mission effort was an important...
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The Dialogues between the European Baptist Federation and the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe
Journal article by Uwe Swarat; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: Baptist churches--Social aspects, Christian organizations--Social aspects, Churches, Baptist--Social aspects, Churches, Protestant--Social aspects, Ecumenical movement, Interdenominational cooperation, Protestant churches--Social aspects
...into a "European Protestant Synod" has been...Baptist Womens Union (through the Womens...existing outside of Protestantism. Also, in private...of the Baptist Union of Evangelical...the Union (now Union of Protestant Churches in the...
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Protestant Groups Ask African Union to Step into Zimbabwe Crisis
Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, April 17, 2007
Subjects: African Union--Powers and duties, Dictators--Powers and duties, Lutheran World Federation--Political activity, Mugabe, Robert--Powers and duties, Violence--Social aspects
Protestant Groups Ask African Union to Step into Zimbabwe Crisis. Two global groupings of Protestant churches have urged the African Union to intervene in the crisis...currently chairs the African Union. Zimbabweans are struggling...
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The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline
Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2008
Subjects: Abortion--Reports, Anglicanism--Reports, Catholics--Ethical aspects, Catholics--Reports, Church--Reports, Civil rights activists--Ethical aspects, Civil rights activists--Reports, Civil rights workers--Ethical aspects, Civil rights workers--Reports, Councils and synods--Reports, Ecumenical movement--Reports, Environmental movement--Reports, Environmentalism--Reports, Episcopal Church--Ethical aspects, Episcopal Church--Management, Episcopal Church--Reports, Fundamentalism--Reports, Geographers--Ethical aspects, Geographers--Reports, Geography--Reports, Lutheranism--Reports, Political parties--Reports, Protestant theology--Reports, Roman Catholics--Ethical aspects, Roman Catholics--Reports, Theology, Protestant--Reports
...perhaps more than merely damaged. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the killing fields of Cambodia, the cultural revolution in...edge of something that frightening today. But the death of Protestant America really has weakened both Christianity and public life...
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Coming to Terms with the Past: Romania: Markus Bauer Hopes That Romania's New Membership of the European Union Will Enable It to Face Down the Ghosts of Its Troubled Twentieth-Century Past
Magazine article by Markus Bauer; History Today, Vol. 57, February 2007
Subjects: European Union--Membership, Romania--Membership, Romania--Political aspects, Romania--Religious aspects, Romanian history--Analysis
...Communist regimes; the Soviet Union was disintegrating. After days...intended sacking of a Hungarian Protestant priest in Timisoara, a town...Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, largely with...had been seized by the Soviet Union in 1940 as a result of the...
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Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
Magazine article by Kevin M. Schultz; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 2006
Subjects: Herberg, Will (American Sociologist)--Religious aspects, Sociologists--Religious aspects
...marriage among people of differing denominations. And several Protestant parachurch groups had formed since World War II, suggesting...number of marriages between Irish and Italian Catholics, a union that at one time had been taboo but which was now deemed acceptable...
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The Protestant Dilemma
Magazine article by Peter J. Gomes; The Christian Century, Vol. 114, October 15, 1997
Subjects: Bible. N.T. (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Reformation--Religious aspects
...ecumenical movement, unite in hostility toward the Catholics. One year the Protestants invited a notorious former Catholic priest, Emmett McLoughlin, to speak at the union service on Reformation Day. He had made something of a name for himself through...
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I'm a Sub-Species of Irishman. Easy to Spot (the Tidy Gardens Are a Giveaway). but with Protestant School Cuts We're Facing Extinction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 16, 2009
...theres the plumage. The female of the sub-species favours tweed, twin-sets and sensible shoes (a Protestant in heels is as rare as a Provo in a Union Jack teeshirt). The male tends to opt for Magee sports jackets, Viyella checked shirts and olive...
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Protestant Peace Cash Bids Rising
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 15, 2005
...the chief executive of Special European Union Programmes Board (SEUPB), which manages...various reasons, received more funding than Protestant communities. "We have been working hard...smaller propensity of applications from Protestant areas and a lack of understanding of...
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PROTESTANT PUT IN CHARGE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOL; CARDINAL GIVES BLESSING TO HISTORIC FIRST but Mrs McCreadie Won't Be Called Head Teacher
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 27, 2008
Subjects: Catholic Church, Catholics, Roman Catholics, Teachers
...Wont Be Called Head Teacher. Byline: By Rob Fairburn A PROTESTANT teacher has been put in charge of Scottish Catholic primary...Educational Institute of Scotland, the countrys largest teaching union, said: "As with all appointments in Scottish denominational...
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Protestant Groups Look at a Spiritual Unity of Flocks
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, April 27, 1996
...Despite the demise of a 1962 dream of unity for mainline Protestants, another vision lives on, thanks most recently to the United...which is the remaining legacy of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU). With the United Methodist vote, crucial because its...
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Act of Union Anniversary Supplement: The King Shall Drink to Hamlet's Better Breath; and, in the Cup, a Union Shall He Throw
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 22, 2001
...1870-1909). But in the Protestant northeast, the Union in many aspects worked...great triumphs of the Union. For Protestant Ulster, at least, a genuine...crucial phase, it was the Union of the more politically Protestant parts of the governing...
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Protestant Union
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PROTESTANT UNION in German history, an alliance...was formed shortly afterward. The Protestant Union was weakened from the start by the...Wars of Religion is also known as the Protestant Union. ____________________ Copyright...
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Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the Columbia Univ. library system. Union Theological Seminary was a major contributor to the revival of Protestant theology in the 1930s and 1940s; through...Neo-orthodoxy. See R. T. Handy, A History of Union Theological Seminary in New York (1987...
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Evangelical League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EVANGELICAL LEAGUE see Protestant Union . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Maximilian I , 1573–1651, Elector and Duke of Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...indignation and spurred the formation (1608) of the Protestant Union. To oppose this, Maximilian founded (1609) the Catholic...Frederick, who was elector of the Palatinate, headed the Protestant Union; he had been elected king of Bohemia to replace Ferdinand...
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Christian of Anhalt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...strong Protestant alliance against the Catholic states and achieved limited success with the formation (1608) of the Protestant Union . Christian guided Fredericks son and successor, Frederick V ( Frederick the Winter King ) and arranged his election...
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