Protestant Christianity Throughout the period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there was a split between the Christian Church along East-West lines. In the East, Orthodox Christianity became the dominant form while in the West, Roman Catholicism ruled. But in the 15th century the Western Christian Church suffered a series of uprisings against Roman Catholic supremacy which resulted in a split of the Western Church called the Protestant Reformation. "Religions of the World: Protestant Christianity," narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, explains the causes and results of the Protestant Reformation.

Beginning with Martin Luther, there was a series of protests over what many called...

The two main issues were the Protestant belief in the supremacy of scripture and the belief that salvation did not have to earned but was given freely as a gift from God. But once a split has occurred what is to stop the splitters from splitting again? And this is exactly what happened when the Protestants began to split into smaller groups over issues of theology. Eventually four main categories of Protestants were formed: Lutheran, Reformed, Radical, and Anglican which, although similar, differed in their beliefs about the transubstantiation and…