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• Adventists (Second Adventists) (AVVENTISTI (ADVENTISTS, SECOND ADVENTISTS)) Vol. II, p. 340
  ADVENTISTS (SECOND ADVENTISTS). - This name, which designates certain Protestant sects of America, derives from the belief of their…
• Anglo-Catholics (ANGLO-CATTOLICI) Vol. I, p. 781
  ANGLO-CATHOLICS. - Under this denomination are understood those members of the Anglican church who, while not forming part of the Roman…
• Awakening (Protestant [English: Revival]) (RISVEGLIO (PROTESTANTICO [INGLESE: REVIVAL])) Vol. X, p. 580
  AWAKENING (Protestant [English: Revival]). - This name designates in Protestantism collective religious movements often followed by…
• Brothers (FRATELLI) Vol. V, p. 1012
  BROTHERS. - A name common to numerous Protestant sects. Besides the Bohemian Brethren (v.), the Moravian Brethren (v.), the Brethren of…
• Church of Christ (CHIESA DI CRISTO) Vol. III, p. 885
  CHURCH OF CHRIST. - Under this name two Protestant sects are included, namely: 1) C. of C. Scientist, better known by the name of Christian…
• Church of God (CHIESA DI DIO) Vol. III, p. 886
  CHURCH OF GOD. - Under this name (Church of God) several Protestant sects are known. 1) C. of G. (reform movement), founded by S. Warner in…
• Comprehensibility (COMPRENSIBILITÀ (COMPREHENSIVENESS)) Vol. IV, p. 82
  COMPREHENSIBILITY. - A characteristic of the Anglican Church, consisting in "comprehending" among its members faithful of different…
• Consensus Vol. IV, p. 246
  CONSENSUS. - Term used by Protestants to indicate a synthetic exposition of doctrine. They give various names to the summaries of their…
• Deacon and Deaconess (Protestant) (DIACONO E DIACONESSA (PROTESTANTI)) Vol. IV, p. 896
  DEACON AND DEACONESS (PROTESTANT). - The 19th century, which marked among Protestants a fervor of revival in the work of their home…
• Dialectical Theology (Barthian) (TEOLOGIA DIALETTICA (BARTHIANA)) Vol. XI, p. 1182
  DIALECTICAL THEOLOGY (BARTHIAN). - This expression designates a doctrinal current that emerged in German Protestantism at the end of the…
• Disciples (DISCEPOLI) Vol. IV, p. 1000
  DISCIPLES. - A designation for Protestants also called Campbellites, because they were followers of Thomas Campbell (1763-1853). He was an…
• Episcopalism (EPISCOPALISMO) Vol. V, p. 292
  EPISCOPALISM. - This is the name given to that Protestant ecclesiastical regime in which the power to consecrate the new ministers of the…
• Evangelicals (EVANGELICI) Vol. V, p. 546
  EVANGELICALS. - Among Protestant authors, the early sects, such as the Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, etc., are designated by the…
• Fundamentalists (FONDAMENTALISTI) Vol. V, p. 877
  FUNDAMENTALISTS. - Two distinct meanings are given to this term. I. - The first is given to those Protestants who, concerned about the…
• High Church ("Chiesa Alta") (HIGH CHURCH («CHIESA ALTA»)) Vol. VI, p. 841
  HIGH CHURCH ("Chiesa Alta"). - With this designation in the 17th and 18th centuries, that is, before the "Oxford movement" (1833), those…
• Italian Protestant Churches (CHIESE PROTESTANTI ITALIANE) Vol. III, p. 886
  ITALIAN PROTESTANT CHURCHES. - The so-called Italian Protestant Churches, some of which continued their feeble existence down to our own…
• Know Nothing Vol. VII, p. 452
  KNOW NOTHING. - Protestant association ("American Protective Association"), whose members swore an oath always to answer "I don't know" to…
• Ku Klux Klan (KU-KLUX-KLAN) Vol. VII, p. 469
  KU KLUX KLAN. - This strange name originated in America in 1865, at Pulaski in Tennessee, one of the Southern states, where, when some…
• Latitudinarians (Latitudinarian Church) (LATITUDINARI (CHIESA LATA)) Vol. VII, p. 578
  LATITUDINARIANS (BROAD CHURCH). - A name already used in the 17th and 18th centuries and applied to those who "aimed at Lambeth and rowed…
• Liberal Protestantism (PROTESTANTESIMO LIBERALE) Vol. X, p. 124
  LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM. - The liberal conception, which established itself under this name, not only in the political field but also in the…
• Libertines (LIBERTINI) Vol. VII, p. 775
  LIBERTINES. - The word L., with the passage of time, has become charged with various meanings. Calvin called Libertines the supporters of…
• Nonconformists (NONCONFORMISTI) Vol. VIII, p. 1127
  NONCONFORMISTS. - During the reign of Elizabeth of England (1558-1603), the name of N. was given to those who had not conformed to the…
• Polish Friars (FRATRES POLONI) Vol. V, p. 1052
  POLISH FRIARS. - Antitrinitarian heretics, Socinians, who existed in Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries. Fausto Socini, when he moved to…
• Protestant Diets (DIETE PROTESTANTI) Vol. IV, p. 916
  PROTESTANT DIETS. - Assemblies of religious-political representatives of the German states, of the primates of the Kingdom of Hungary, and…
• Protestant Ecumenism (ECUMENISMO PROTESTANTE) Vol. V, p. 65
  PROTESTANT ECUMENISM. - I. TENDENCIES. - The pseudo-reformation of the 16th century gave rise among Protestants to two divergent and…
• Protestantism (PROTESTANTESIMO) Vol. X, p. 116
  PROTESTANTISM. - The term "P." enters history on 19 April 1529, when the Diet of Speyer confirmed the decree of the Diet of Worms against…
• Racovia, Catechism of (RACOVIA, CATECHISMO DI) Vol. X, p. 272
  RACOVIA, Catechism of. - Fundamental text of the Socinians (v. SOCINI), published in Polish at Racovia (Rakau in Poland) in 1605, reprinted…
• Rosicrucianism (ROSACROCE) Vol. X, p. 800
  ROSICRUCIANISM. — A Protestant sect, which originated from a historical novel, invented, it seems, by the Lutheran theologian Johann…
• Sunday School (DOMENICALE, SCUOLA) Vol. IV, p. 1046
  SUNDAY SCHOOL. - According to the definition of G. Everette, "the Sunday school is the school of the Church of Christ, gathered on Sunday,…
• Thirty-Nine Articles (ARTICOLI DI RELIGIONE ANGLICANI) Vol. II, p. 57
  THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. - The 39 A. of R. of the Anglican Church are found at the end of almost all modern editions of the Book of Common…