Tazama chanzo cha Uprotestanti

[[File:Mikolow protestant church pulpit.jpg|thumb|right|Wahusika wakuu wa Matengenezo ya Kiprotestanti: [[Martin Luther]] na [[John Calvin]] wameonyesha katika [[mimbari]] ya [[kanisa]] la [[Mikolow]], [[Poland]].]]
[[File:Protestentism world map.png|thumb|500px|[[Ramani]] inayoonyesha asilimia ya [[Waprotestanti]] kati ya wakazi wa kila nchi duniani.]]
[[File:Protestants by country.png|thumb|500px|[[Ramani]] inayoonyesha idadi ya [[Waprotestanti]] kwa kila nchi duniani mwaka [[2010]].
{{legend|black|Zaidi ya milioni 150}}
{{legend|#555555|Zaidi ya milioni 50}}
{{legend|#702963|Zaidi ya milioni 20}}
{{legend|#B53389|Zaidi ya milioni 10}}
{{legend|#DF73FF|Zaidi ya milioni 5}}
{{legend|lavenderblush|More than 1 million}}]]
{{Ukristo}}
'''Uprotestanti''' ni aina ya [[Ukristo]] iliyotokana na [[Kanisa Katoliki]] huko [[Ulaya Kaskazini]] katika [[karne XVI]] kufuatana na tapo la kidini na la kisiasa maarufu kwa jina la "[[Matengenezo ya Kiprotestanti]]". Wahusika wakuu wa tapo hilo ni [[Martin Luther]] na [[Yohane Kalvini]]. 

== Asili==
[[Martin Luther]], [[daktari]] wa [[teolojia]] na [[padri]] [[mtawa]], alisema kuwa [[Kanisa]] linapaswa kurejea kwenye [[mizizi]] yake, na kutoa uzito zaidi kwa yale yaliyoandikwa katika, [[Biblia]]. Luther alidhani kuwa Kanisa limekwenda mbali na [[mafundisho]] ya awali. Alichapisha [[tasnifu]] 95 kuhusu njia ya Kanisa Katoliki. Wengine wanasema, alizipigilia kwenye [[mlango]] wa kanisa la [[Wittenberg]], lakini wengine wanasema hii si kweli. Tasnifu 95 zilichapishwa mnamo mwaka wa [[1516]] au [[1517]]. Kwa maneno hayo, yalianza Matengenezo ya Kiprotestanti

== Jina ==.
Mwaka [[1529]], [[Bunge]] la [[Speyer]] ([[Ujerumani]]), kikao cha wakuu wa [[Ujerumani]] na [[miji huru]] kilipokuwa kikiongea dhidi ya Matengenezo lilikataza tena uenezaji wake katika [[Dola Takatifu la Kiroma]] mpaka [[Mtaguso mkuu]] utakaporudisha utaratibu ndani ya [[Kanisa]].

Lakini watawala waliomuunga mkono Luther walitoa hati ya pamoja inayoanza na maneno ''Protestamur'', yaani ''Tunapinga''. 

Mwaka [[1555]] [[Amani ya Augsburg]] ilipitisha kauli ya kwamba [[cuius regio, eius religio]], yaani kila [[raia]] anapaswa kufuata [[madhehebu]] ya [[eneo]] anamoishi, kadiri ilivyopangwa na [[mtawala]] wake, la sivyo ni lazima ahame. 

== Teolojia ==
Uprotestanti unagawanyika katika maelfu ya [[madhehebu]] tofauti, lakini inawezekana kutambua mambo kadhaa yanayolingana katika hayo yote:
* kusisitiza [[Biblia]] kama msingi wa [[imani]].
* kusisitiza "[[wokovu]] kwa njia ya imani". 
* kusisitiza [[ukosefu]] wa [[binadamu]] na [[haja]] ya [[damu]] ya [[Yesu]] [[Masiya|Kristo]] kama [[kafara]] iliyopangwa na [[Mungu]].

==Uenezi==
Leo Waprotestanti wote duniani wanakadiriwa kuwa kati ya 800,000,000 na 1,000,000,000.

== Tanbihi ==
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== Marejeo ==
*Cook, Martin L. (1991). ''The Open Circle: Confessional Method in Theology''. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press. xiv, 130 p. N.B.: Discusses the place of Confessions of Faith in Protestant theology, especially in Lutheranism. ISBN 0-8006-2482-3
*[[John Dillenberger|Dillenberger, John]], and [[Claude Welch]] (1988). ''Protestant Christianity, Interpreted through Its Development''. Second ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. ISBN 0-02-329601-1
*{{cite book|title=Christianity's Dangerous Idea|url=https://archive.org/details/christianitysdan00mcgr_0|last=McGrath|first=Alister E.|author-link=Alister McGrath|year=2007|location=New York|publisher=[[HarperOne]]}}
*Nash, Arnold S., ed. (1951). ''Protestant Thought in the Twentieth Century: Whence & Whither''? New York: Macmillan Co.
*{{cite book|title=Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction|url=https://archive.org/details/protestantismver0000noll|last=Noll|first=Mark A.|author-link=Mark Noll|year=2011|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}

== Viungo vya nje ==
{{Wiktionary|Protestant|Protestantism|evangelical}}
{{Commons category|Protestantism}}
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12495a.htm "Protestantism"] from the 1917 ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]''
* [http://www.oikoumene.org/ World Council of Churches] World body for mainline protestant churches
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