Décors de temple
Les temples protestants sont très sobres, car les lieux de culte doivent être dépouillés de toute image, pour éviter toute idolâtrie.
The pastoral gown
Since Calvin’s days, the black gown, traditionally for university doctors, was frequently worn at collective worship. After 1968 it, it tended to disappear but is now coming back in use...
The garments of the deaconesses of Reuilly
When the community was created in 1841, the deaconesses wished to wear clothing almost similar to that of ordinary women. But, in the second half of the 20th century, they...
A new relationship to God
In the XVIth century, it appeared highly necessary to reform the Catholic Church. But how was this to be done and to what extent ?
Inscriptions sur des murs de prison
Ces inscriptions sont les traces des prisonniers pour leur foi.
Caricatures
Ces caricatures illustrent des luttes religieuses et ridiculisent la faction adverse.
French Lutheranism
At the beginning of the 19th century Lutheran churches were organised according to the Organic Articles of 1802. Many Lutherans came and settled in France, especially after the 1870 war...
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, which was born and created in England, settled in France in 1881. Its aims were to evangelize and to provide the lower classes with social help.
The role played by protestant women in society from the XVIth to the XIXth centuries
From the very beginning, women took advantage of the new ideas spread by the Reform movement to rethink their role within the family, the Church and society. Indeed, it was...
The World Huguenot Center
The comité was founded in 1915, with the aim of promulgating information about French Protestantism throughout the world and creating links between Protestants in France and the countries where the...
The Reformation established in France
As everywhere in Europe, the desire for a reform of the Church was widespread throughout the whole of France. This is why scholars so readily welcomed Luther’s ideas.
Progress towards unity
At the beginning of the 20th century, the need for unity was felt by different churches, and eventually led to the foundation of the Fédération protestante de France in 1905.
Protestantism in Alsace in 19th century
In Alsace the numerous Lutheran community, as well as the predominant reformed one in Mulhouse, were to be submitted to the same requirements as the reformed churches “inland”. But the...
The faculties of theology in the 19th century
In 19th century France, Lutheran and Reformed pastors under the Concordat rule were trained in two State-recognized faculties of theology.
The missionary movement
The missionary fervour of the Protestant Church arose in the nineteenth century. The first mission was in a country under the British rule and later on in countries that were...
The first missions
The first Protestant missions were established in South-Africa, where the beginning of the 19th century saw some major political transformations.
Organization of the missionary movement
Even though the House of Missions was closed for a short period during the 1848 revolution and the 1870 war, missionary enthusiasm spread in France in different ways.
The abolition of slavery
In the nineteenth century, slavery became incompatible with the major political (human rights), economic (legitimate trade) and theological (evangelization) currents. Slavery, even though re-established by Napoleon, it was permanently made...
The deaconesses of Reuilly
The community of the deaconesses of Reuilly came into being in 1841 and was established in the rue de Reuilly in the XIIth arrondissement in Paris in 1844, which is...