Christianity is the sum of Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox...Protestantism is what became of Reformation (Martin Luther's split from the Catholic Church).
Protestantism is a sub-category of Christianity, including Lutherans, Calvinists, C of E (albeit later), etc. Most Christian sects will fall under either Catholic or Protestant.
Protestantism was a movement in 1517 within Christianity. Believers that believe what that movement believed are called protestants today.
No, there is no difference. The reform aim was to return to the core and pure unaltered Christian belief. Theoretically, if they succeeded (you study and find yourself) they have the purest Christian believe just like the Christians living with Jesus.
Protestants broke away from the Catholic church in search of religious freedom. They didn't want to follow the edicts of the pope. Google Martin Luther for starters.
EDIT: There are minor differences in the practices of Catholicism and Protestant sects. Catholics follow the Pope, have a hierarchy of clergy, nuns, confession, the rosary, the way prayer is done. Protestant churches reject the Pope, don't have nuns, confession is done directly from person to God and not to a priest; they don't have rewritten prayers or do the rosary, no holy water... Now this protestant description is the extreme and doesn't necessarily apply to all sects. Episcopalian Church practices are similar to Catholic.
Trinitarian Protestantism,which broke off from Catholicism (the largest subset of Christianity)500 yrs ago ,is the 2ND largest subset of Christianity. Orthodoxy is the third
I am Catholic and so i believe that Catholicism is the fullest and original subset of Christianity. The Orthodox claim the same.
There are 30,00+ different Protestant denominations and many are very different from each other and some are very close to Catholicism and some are very far.
There are protestants like Jehovah's Witnesses who are not accepted as being Christian by most other Protestant groups because they reject the trinity and the Deity of Jesus
Protestantism is a different paradigm in Christianity from Catholicism. Catholicism gives much authority to the separate priesthood over the congregation, where-as the Protestant churches ascribe the priesthood on every believer.
These are only a small sampling of differences, but in general both Catholicism and Protestantism teach Jesus Christ as Lord, the human incarnate form of God's Son, who became flesh and suffered so that all humanity might each have the individual opportunity for a restoration of soul and renewed relationship with God.
Protestantism is the name that distinguishes a branch of Christianity that deviated from the Catholic church in the 16Th century following Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation. All Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Nazarenes, etc., etc. either directly or indirectly spurred from this Reformation.
Basically, to be considered a Protestant sect of Christianity, you must adhere to the Five Solas: Christ, scripture, grace, faith and glory to God., which were created by followers of Luther and the Reformation. If your religion doesn't, it's usually considered a cult.
Christianity is the belief that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth with the sole intention of giving His life as the blood sacrifice to redeem mankind to God the Father.
People of any denomination can be a Christian because it is a personal decision not a congregational or group decision when you receive Christ as your Savior.
Having said that, you will find Christians in just about any denomination, even though the denomination itself doesn't subscribe to the doctrines of Christ or the Bible 100 percent. Those denominations that embrace the doctrines of Christ, the basic truths that are common among Christians are generally considered "Christian" no matter what name they go by (Baptist,Methodist, Lutheran, Episcable, etc.). When someone speaks of "protestant" churches, these are the churches they are speaking of with the exception of the Catholic church. The Catholics are not "protestant" because the word is used to distinguish the difference of their doctrines and ordinances. Protestants have a particular set of doctrines and 2 ordinances that are common among them. The Catholics have many more differences that don't align with the protestants, although they do believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Basically, they believe a lot of other stuff that can't be substantiated in the Holy Bible, whereas the Protestant's one source of the beliefs it embraces is the Bible and nothing else.
So, if you mention Christians........you are talking about anyone who has received Christ as their personal Savior, within a particular church or not.
If you mention protestant.....you are speaking of the many denominations who are basically Christians under whatever denomination they have chosen to align with.
Catholics......you are speaking of a group that embraces Christ, but adds a lot of stuff to their beliefs that protestants disagree with.
Okay do you want the truth? First there was only Christianity and one church. then the apostasy came which was the Catholic church then the protest churches and why they are called protestant which are only apostasies of the apostasy. True Christianity has only the bible as its guide and the only Creed is the bible. The bible only. Anything that goes beyond the bible or takes away from the bible is not true Christianity.
Okay now you can disbelieve me because I am not Christian anymore and am pagan, Wiccan to be exact. But that is the answer to your question. Ephesians 4:4,5,6 says plainly there is one church, one Faith, one baptism, but look around and you see hundreds, so there is according to the bible only one true Christianity all others are from man which is also from Satan and they say my religion is from Satan and we do not even believe in Satan. Read Galatians 1:6,7,8,9 and you find that Paul said that if anyone preach a gospel other than that which they preached let him be cursed, he felt so strongly about it he repeated it.
Protestantism and Christianity?
