All 5 Uses of
Protestant
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- In your truly Protestant department, where after his day of professionally indifferent justice (strained, bent, dented here and there by the age-old hammerings of low pay and temptation always too ready-at-hand, by anger, boredom, and the despair which comes with dealing out more justice than any policeman gets), the man of the force goes home to a wife who involves him, as soon as he crosses his threshold, in excuse-making and bribery and pointless anger of his own; and lest he begin to slide into a comfortable self-hatred, a schizophrenic separation of the policeman in him and the tawdry man, she kisses him on the cheek and, sooner or later, unmans him in his bed.†
Chpt 5
- They'd sent him home and he'd married a girl he'd gone with most of his life—a Protestant, and so, with a shrug, because his parents were the kind who would bite their lips and weep a little and forgive it, he too became a Protestant, a Methodist like his wife, whatever that meant.†
Chpt 5
- They'd sent him home and he'd married a girl he'd gone with most of his life—a Protestant, and so, with a shrug, because his parents were the kind who would bite their lips and weep a little and forgive it, he too became a Protestant, a Methodist like his wife, whatever that meant.†
Chpt 5
- They stood motionless in their dark suits, even the children motionless, and when they bowed or knelt or crossed themselves—all but the half-dozen Protestants there—they did it together, as though by a single impulse in their hearts.†
Chpt 9
- It was the fault of America, of Capitalism, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism.†
Chpt 10 *
Definition:
of or relating to any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
The word Protestant is based on the word protest -- in reference to the protest against the Catholic church.
The most common protestant denominations include Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians.
The most common protestant denominations include Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians.