The Origin of the Name “Protestants”

As sons and daughters of the Reformation, we are called Protestants. Do you know the origin of that name? While most of us probably readily connect that name with the Reformation of the sixteenth century, there are probably not many of us who are acquainted with the specific historical origin of it. Nevertheless that origin is worth knowing: for it is intimately connected with the very principle of the Reformation. To understand this we must go back to the early history of the Reformation in...