Protestant Theology in the Twentieth Century

“Protestantism” is a collective designation for the part of Christianity that was generated by the Reformation movements of the sixteenth century. As such, Protestantism is regarded as the third main form of Christianity, alongside the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches. Nevertheless, the idea of Protestantism is disputed. A split arose in the nineteenth century between a church-oriented Protestantism and a cultural Protestantism, and it has become more and more difficult in the course of the twentieth century to understand Protestant theology simply as a contrast to Catholic theology.