Mainline Protestantism

(noun)

Mainline Protestant (also sometimes called "mainstream American Protestant") are certain Protestant churches in the United States that comprised a majority of Americans from the colonial era until the early 20th century.

Related Terms

Examples of Mainline Protestantism in the following topics:

  • Widespread Belief

    • That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.
    • Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
    • In typical usage, the term mainline is contrasted with evangelical.

  • Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

    • Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism had an elective affinity with capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
    • Additionally, Weber observed that both ascetic Protestantism and capitalism encouraged cultural practices that reinforced one another.
    • As evidence for his study, Weber noted that ascetic Protestantism and advanced capitalism tended to coincide with one another.
    • In contrast, Weber showed that certain types of Protestantism, notably Calvinism, supported worldly activities and the rational pursuit of economic gain.
    • Weber saw an elective affinity between capitalism and Protestantism, especially Calvinism.

  • Providing Build Farms and Development Servers

    • For example, projects often use continuous integration (CI) testing (a.k.a. build farms) to automatically ensure that the changes developers are committing both integrate into the mainline trunk and pass all regression tests.

  • Protestantism

    • Protestantism is one of the major umbrella religions in the U.S., and is constantly evolving in response to political and social changes.
    • Colonists from Northern Europe, primarily from Great Britain, introduced Protestantism to a number of areas, including Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Netherlands, the Virginia colony, the Carolina Colony, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Lower Canada.
    • Evangelicalism in Protestantism is difficult to both date and define.
    • Describe the various sects of Protestantism and four key moments in their history in the U.S., including any resitance to those moments

  • Evolution of Protestantism

    • The First Great Awakening illustrated the evolution of Protestantism in the British colonies.
    • In the colonies, this could be seen in the evolution of Protestantism over the centuries.
    • Individuals could bring about their own salvation by accepting Christ, an especially welcome message for those who had felt excluded by traditional Protestantism—women, the young, and people at the lower end of the social spectrum.

  • Religious Denominations

    • Christianity has different denominations such as Protestantism and Catholicism, among others.
    • The term describes various Christian denominations (for example, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, and the many varieties of Protestantism).

  • Introduction to Release Branches

    • A release branch is just a branch in the version control system (see branch), on which the code destined for this release can be isolated from mainline development.
    • " instead of "Do I work on the release today, or work on that new feature I've been developing in the mainline code?

  • Mechanics of Release Branches

    • Traditionally, the trunk is where mainline development goes on, unfettered by release constraints.

  • Charles Finney and the Burned-Over District

    • Besides producing many mainline Protestant converts, especially in nonconformist sects, the area spawned a number of innovative religious movements, all founded by laypeople during the early nineteenth century.

  • Plymouth

    • The Puritans founded Plymouth in order to practice their own brand of Protestantism without interference from England.
    • In their “New” England, they set out to create a model of reformed Protestantism—a new English Israel.