WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The reformers were not initially called Protestants, but the term later was applied to all groups opposed to the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church.

Detailed explanation-2: -In fact, Martin Luther King was a minister in the Baptist Church, one of the strands of Christianity derived from the Protestant faith, the very faith Martin Luther is credited with inspiring.

Detailed explanation-3: -The followers of Martin Luther were called Protestants. They ware called protestants because of their “Protest". They were in protest of the major beliefs of the Catholic Church at the time. They held differing beliefs than the Catholic Church and sought to create a new Christian sect based on these new beliefs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Protestantism originated from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The term Protestant comes from the Protestation at Speyer in 1529, where the nobility protested against enforcement of the Edict of Worms which subjected advocates of Lutheranism to forfeit of all their property.