PROTESTANTISM

(See also Fundamentalism; Reformation; denominations by name)

attitude toward—

Bible: g 12/11 9; gm 31-32; g89 10/22 19

divorce: w88 5/15 3

evolution theory: w86 7/15 5

predestination: w10 9/1 21; w95 2/15 3-4

traditions: g89 9/8 23

Australia:

campaign to distribute free Bibles: g88 1/22 30

beginning: sh 313-314; g89 8/22 19; w87 10/1 23

church law: w96 9/1 18

clergymen rebaptized in disapproval of infant baptism: g87 12/22 29

creeds accepted: sh 328

decline: g89 11/22 21

surplus clergy: g95 12/8 29

United States: g91 1/8 28

development: pc 26-27; sh 313-328; g89 9/8 23-27; w87 10/1 23-25; w87 11/1 25-27, 29

disunity: w10 9/1 20-21

experiences: w01 9/15 4, 7

church elders accept truth: yb07 48-49; w87 11/15 27-28

deacon accepts truth: yb05 77

minister praises Watchtower and Awake!: w87 12/1 32

older couple who hated war: w07 2/1 23-24

pastor accepts truth: yb15 49, 51-52

woman accepts truth after failure to promote house-to-house preaching: w86 10/1 21

France:

persecution (16th-18th centuries): g 3/11 12; g00 12/22 14-15

wars with Catholics (1500’s): g97 4/22 4-9

future prospects: g87 9/8 8-11

higher criticism: g 12/11 9; gm 31-32, 38-43; g89 10/22 19

Jehovah’s Witnesses not Protestants: ijwfq article 33; g 8/10 6; w09 11/1 19; w09 12/15 3

Jesuit efforts to combat: g92 11/8 12-13

missionary activity: g94 10/22 22; gm 34; g89 9/22 16; g89 10/22 17-18

more reprehensible than Catholicism: w89 4/1 30

no real reformation: pc 27; g89 9/8 25-27

Northern Ireland: w87 11/1 25; g87 1/8 6-7

number of denominations: g89 9/8 25

origin of term “Protestant”: sh 317; g89 8/22 19

political involvement:

Reformation contributes: w93 7/1 10-11

wars kindled by Reformation: g89 9/8 27

sects: g89 9/8 25-26

similarity to Catholic Church: pc 27; w93 6/15 21-22

social characteristics: g89 9/8 24-25; w87 11/1 26-27, 29

social gospel: g89 10/8 22-23

South Africa: g88 6/22 3-6

support of Nazism: g95 8/22 13-14; w89 4/15 23

Switzerland: w10 9/1 19-20; sh 319-321, 323-324; w87 11/15 21-22; yb87 116

theology: g87 9/8 6-7

United States:

forecast by panel of Protestant scholars: g86 6/22 29

PTL scandal: g88 3/22 5-6; g87 7/22 29

TV evangelists: w88 4/1 17-18; g88 3/22 5-8; g88 7/8 31; g88 10/22 31; w86 11/15 21

whether typified by Oholibah: rr 166, 239; w89 4/1 30; w88 9/15 20-21