This page gathers the 23 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Protestantism”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- Arminian noun A person who follows the soteriological doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius that people are able to choose to resist or…
- brethren noun Members of any congregation in the Anabaptist tradition of the Schwarzenau Brethren, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance…
- Bullockite noun A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists, founded by Jeremiah Bullock, which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine…
- crusade noun A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
- dissentism noun The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.
- eradicationism noun Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers…
- exhorter noun A lay preacher.
- filling noun A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- free-willer noun A person belonging to a sect that rejected the doctrine of predestination.
- Gomarist noun A follower of Franciscus Gomarus, a 17th-century Dutch Calvinist who strongly opposed the Arminians; an adherent of orthodox Reformed…
- gospel noun The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
- introit noun Any piece of choral music, especially a setting of an anthem or a psalm, sung at the opening of a church service.
- Keswickism noun The religious practices associated with the Keswick Convention, in particular the holiness doctrine that also asserts that full perfection…
- mainline adj Not fundamentalist, charismatic or evangelical.
- Mariolatry noun Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.
- minister noun A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- office noun Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- pastor noun A minister or priest in a church.
- primer noun Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
- remonstrant noun A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a…
- seceder noun A member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
- speaking in tongues noun The act of speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state…
- token noun A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.