EARLY PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN THE PHILIPPINES: SOME INTERCULTURAL PROBLEMS1 1. Introduction As a trained social anthropologist‚ I would like to present the findings of a three-year research on the early impact of Protestant missionary efforts at the turn of the last century. Some of these could be useful not only to Filipinos but also to other Asian churches as we reflect on the future of Christian mission in Asia. It is important for us to grasp the fact that what we call Christianity
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Catholic Church have been around for an extremely long time. The Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism both agree on many important things of the historic Christian faith. However the rituals and practices are quite different. The rituals and practices of a Roman Catholic Church consist of Mass‚ Baptism‚ Confession‚ receiving Communion‚ praying the Rosary‚ Last Rites‚ and much more. Whereas Protestantism was formed in the 16th century when it was separated from the Roman Catholicism during the
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’definitively protestant’. Under Somerset some supporters adopted a more radical alternative‚ but Somerset for political reasons took a bipartisan approach‚ trying to remain on both the Catholics and Protestants side. This makes accessing the Protestantism of the reformation difficult. Somerset focused on attacking the sacraments to keep the majority‚ while advancing
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Reformation‚ the Catholic Counter-Reformation‚ and the Age of Enlightenment. Even so‚ there are continuities in that time period‚ including the Western desire to discover‚ and the states that continued to be Catholic in the face of reformation and Protestantism. The year is 1450‚ and most of Western Europe is still largely Roman Catholic. The Spaniards are in the process of removing the Muslim Moors from Andalusia. In the late 1400s to early 1500s‚ the Italian Renaissance‚ or "Age of Rebirth" was spreading
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How far was England a more Protestant country at the death of Edward VI than at his accession in 1547? It’s 1547 and Henry VIII has just died leaving the English Church in a state of pure confusion. A Protestant approach to the Church of England had been adopted in the early 1530s to help Henry gain the annulment he so desperately wanted from his first wife Katherine followed by several Protestant doctrinal changes. However the latter years of his life saw a reversion back to Catholicism with
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Thesis:The Puritans were a widespread and diverse group of individuals who took a stand for religious purity in the 16th‚ 17th‚ and 18th centuries. They had been strongly against the Catholic Church. As a matter of fact the Puritan colonists believed that English Reformation had not gone far enough and that the Church of England‚ also known as the Anglican church‚ was still tolerating too many practices that were associated with the Church of Rome they wanted greater reforms to do away with all the
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1580? When Elizabeth came to the throne‚ the majority of people in England and Wales were Catholic in belief. By 1559 only 14% of wills in Sussex contained Protestant formulae and bequests; by 1560 only 10% of wills in Kent had a statement of Protestantism in the preamble. Therefore‚ Elizabeth’s task was to slowly wean the population away from their traditional Catholic beliefs and towards her protestant regime through preaching and education. The government was actually particularly successful
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Religion played a significant role in the wars during the period 1560-1648. Due to religious indifference fighting ensued as regions fought for their religion (Catholics vs Protestants) to be the dominant one. Leaders also forced their religion on their subjects which in turn caused the subjects to revolt. For instance‚ France saw a great increase of Calvinism that by the end of 1560s almost one-third of the elites joined the Huguenots (French Calvinists). Civil war broke out as both Catholics and
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massacred‚ or face brutal public execution for their faith in Christ alone‚ would not stop the belevier. However‚the murder of thousands of French Protestants by Catholics in August 1572. Accounting to Glenn Sunshine‚ in the "Reforming French Protestantism." It has been estimated that 70‚000 Protestants were killed in the Saint Bartholomew’s day massacre. influenced not only the subsequent course of France’s civil wars and long-standing cultural values across Europe. Protestant were horrified‚ starting
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intellectual spheres challenged the traditional place of evangelical Protestantism. Christian fundamentalism has been succinctly defined by George Marsden as “militantly anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism.” In the latter part of the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th they developed specific beliefs and operating principles that set them apart from what was‚ in their view‚ dangerously liberal evangelical Protestantism. In a post-Darwinian world the Protestant worldview‚ particularly
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