I think every religion or sect (even Catholicism and the more intentionally fundamentalist) has those parts of the Bible they ignore or don't follow - they have to. I don't think the Spiritualist Church is considered Protestant, though.
I was looking at a list of statistics (which I will probably talk about in Apaplexy or on LJ, when I find time) which listed how many Canadians are in each of various religions, and it listed Catholicism, Protestantism, and non-Protestant Chritian churches separately. I wondered what the distinction was, since I tend to think of "Protestant" as meaning "Christian, but not Roman Catholic or Orthodox". According to Wikipedia, it Protestantism refers to "the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation." Which makes a lot of sense, though in Canada most Protestants are in the United Church, which was technically formed in the 1920s - amalgamating Presbyterians and Methodists - and Methodism itself is kind of late for the Reformation, but is usually considered Protestant. I think. But I guess if you get too fussy about the definition you end up with nothing being Protestant except Lutherans and Calvinists. To make it all more complicated, I've known Anglicans who refer to themselves as "Catholic not Protestant" - perhaps all Anglicans do this, I don't know. In which case Anglicans themselves might fit into the category of "non-Protestant Christians".
And then there's the historical distinction between 'Protestants' and 'dissenters'.... It's so complicated!
Anyway, by this (logical) definition, the Spiritualist Church, founded in the 19th century, came long after the Reformation and would be a "non-Protestant Christian church".
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Date: 2008-09-10 03:29 pm (UTC)I was looking at a list of statistics (which I will probably talk about in Apaplexy or on LJ, when I find time) which listed how many Canadians are in each of various religions, and it listed Catholicism, Protestantism, and non-Protestant Chritian churches separately. I wondered what the distinction was, since I tend to think of "Protestant" as meaning "Christian, but not Roman Catholic or Orthodox". According to Wikipedia, it Protestantism refers to "the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation." Which makes a lot of sense, though in Canada most Protestants are in the United Church, which was technically formed in the 1920s - amalgamating Presbyterians and Methodists - and Methodism itself is kind of late for the Reformation, but is usually considered Protestant. I think. But I guess if you get too fussy about the definition you end up with nothing being Protestant except Lutherans and Calvinists. To make it all more complicated, I've known Anglicans who refer to themselves as "Catholic not Protestant" - perhaps all Anglicans do this, I don't know. In which case Anglicans themselves might fit into the category of "non-Protestant Christians".
And then there's the historical distinction between 'Protestants' and 'dissenters'.... It's so complicated!
Anyway, by this (logical) definition, the Spiritualist Church, founded in the 19th century, came long after the Reformation and would be a "non-Protestant Christian church".