German+Protestant
91High German — High High, a. [Compar. {Higher}; superl. {Highest}.] [OE. high, hegh, hey, heh, AS. he[ a]h, h?h; akin to OS. h?h, OFries. hag, hach, D. hoog, OHG. h?h, G. hoch, Icel. h?r, Sw. h[ o]g, Dan. h[ o]i, Goth. hauhs, and to Icel. haugr mound, G. h[… …
92Batak Protestant Christian Church — ▪ church, Indonesia also called Huria Kristen Batak Protestant (HKBP) church in northern Sumatra, Indon., organized as an independent church in 1930 and constituting the largest Lutheran church in Asia. It developed from the work of… …
93John Sinclair (German fiction) — John Sinclair is the name as well as the protagonist of a popular German penny dreadful. Sinclair, a Scotland Yard chief inspector, battles all kinds of undead and demonic creatures. The series appears weekly and has been running since 1973. The… …
94National Socialist German Workers Party — Parti national socialiste des travailleurs allemands Pour les articles homonymes, voir Parti national. Emblème du NSDAP. Le NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Parti national so …
95Swiss Federation of Protestant Churches — ▪ religious organization German Schweizerischer Evangelischer Kirchenbund, French Fédération Des Églises Protestantes De La Suisse, confederation founded in 1920 to represent the interests of the churches in social issues, government… …
96Confessing Church — German Bekennende Kirche Movement for revival within the German Protestant churches that developed in the 1930s in resistance to Adolf Hitler s attempt to make the churches an instrument of Nazi propaganda and politics. The Confessing Church,… …
97Ritschl, Albrecht — ▪ German theologian born March 25, 1822, Berlin died March 20, 1889, Göttingen, Ger. German Lutheran theologian who showed both the religious and ethical relevance of the Christian faith by synthesizing the teaching of the Scriptures and… …
98collegia pietatis — ▪ Protestant history Latin“schools of piety” conventicles of Christians meeting to study the Scriptures and devotional literature; the concept was first advanced in the 16th century by the German Protestant Reformer Martin Bucer (Bucer,… …
99Dorner, Isaak August — ▪ German theologian born June 20, 1809, Neuhausen, Württemberg [Germany] died July 8, 1884, Wiesbaden, Ger. German Protestant theologian who sought to interpret Kantian and post Kantian thought in terms of traditional Lutheran doctrine. The …
100Christian of Anhalt — ▪ Protestant prince born May 11, 1568, Bernburg, Anhalt [Ger.] died April 17, 1630, Bernburg minor Protestant prince who played a major role in precipitating the Thirty Years War (1618–48). Christian entered the service of the… …
