10 Facts About Mainline Protestant

Mainline Protestant churches are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States that contrast in history and practice with evangelical, fundamentalist, and charismatic Protestant denominations.

Some mainline Protestant denominations have the highest proportion of graduate and post-graduate degrees of any other denomination in the United States.

Term mainline Protestant was coined during debates between modernists and fundamentalists in the 1920s.

Term mainstream Christian in academic usage is not equivalent to mainline Protestant and is often used as an attempt to find impartial sociological vocabulary in distinguishing orthodoxy and heresy.

Mainline Protestant churches hold a range of theological orientations—conservative, moderate and liberal.

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Mainline Protestant denominations are historically Trinitarian and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Son of God.

Mainline Protestant denominations emphasize the biblical concept of justice, stressing the need for Christians to work for social justice, which usually involve politically liberal approaches to social and economic problems.

Mainline Protestant churches were basically pacifistic before 1940, but under the influence of people such as Reinhold Niebuhr they supported World War II and the Cold War.

Mainline Protestant'spanics comprise 6 percent of the mainline population but 16 percent of the US population.

Many older Mainline Protestant churches lived a vibrant lifetime and continue to evidence vital ministry and faith regardless of declining populations or birthrates.