Sentence examples for from the protestant from inspiring English sources

He then became a victim of Nazi persecution, rather than a perpetrator, and was sacked in 1937 for his membership of the Bekennende Kirche [the Confessing Church], followers of Martin Niemöller, the pastor who had called for them to break from the Protestant church in protest at Hitler's policies.

From The Protestant Ethic (1905).

Unionists from the Protestant majority initially resisted him.

The Remonstrant Brethren, which broke from the Protestant church in 1619, accepted gay marriages in 1986.

This union led him to convert from the Protestant faith, in which he was raised, to Catholicism.

The collection has been reinstalled under the theme Britain and the World and includes over five hundred works tracing British art from the Protestant Reformation to the present.

Indeed, he was separated from both historical traditions available to him in Ireland from the Roman Catholics, because he could not share their faith, and from the Protestants, because he felt repelled by their concern for material success.

Most of the epitaphs that have survived from before the Protestant Reformation were inscribed upon brasses.

The Remonstrants, assailed on all sides, were expelled from the Netherlands by the Protestant Synod of Dort (1618 19), which declared Remonstrant theology contrary to Scripture.

He helped form a conservative coalition of leaders from the Republican Party, the Protestant evangelical community and the Catholic Church.

Father and son converted from Catholicism to the Protestant church – something Merkel didn't know until recently.