[Cronos]

you are correct about not using the "P" word -- I agree with syncro, Rash, there are various non-Catholic Christians and the term "Protestant" is anachronistic

"protestant" was for the initial group of Churches that broke away, but that was the first and second generation of non-Catholic denominations: Lutherans, Anglicans and Presbyterians

subsequent generations were breakers away from this initial bunc

There are new directions being found, new interpretations everyday.

Each new bunch of Reformatters reformats the old.

1. You have the first generation namely Lutheran sticking close to orthodoxy with the Lutherans holding to the True Presence in the Eucharist, to Baptismal regeneration etc.
2. Generation 2: Then you have the Calvin-Zwingli crowd rejecting these two as well as other aspects of orthodoxy
3. Generation 3: Knox and the Anglican compromise
4. Generation 4: The Unitarians like Michael Servetus who went from being Catholic to Lutheran to Reformed to denying the Trinity.
5. Generation 5: the Baptists who now rejected infant baptism (quite unlike their namesakes the Anabaptists (now called Mennonites)) and said that there was a great Apostasy in the first centuries of Christendom (Gen 1-3 took later centuries as the dates of their "Great Apostasy")
6. Generation 6: the Restorationists at the Great Awakening, like
   
   • The Millerites, to become the Seventh DayAdventists -- with Ellen G White saying that Jesus was the same as the Archangel Michael and that Satan woudl take the sins of the world at the end of time and other beauties. They came up with their own version of the Bible
   • The Unitarians and Universalists -- reborn and reinvigorated by this reformatting, they tossed out the Trinity and eventually they end up as they are today where they believe in nothing
   • Jehovah's Witnesses: they tossed out the Trinity too and came up with their own version of the Bible
   • The Mormons: they took the Trinity and made it three gods. They too came up with their own version of the Bible
7. Generation 7: the Orthodo Presbyterian C, the FourSquare Ahoy! Pentecostalists, the Raelians, the Branch Davidians, the Creflo-Dollar crowd, the Jesse Dupantis (I went to visit Jesus in heaven and comforted Him) etc -- one step further beyond generation 6
8. Generation 8: ... any one of the thousands of new sects formed since 1990

Now most of these one can't call "Protestant" -- many, like the Mormons etc, one can't call Christian even

On this very thread you'll have cynical posters who believe in gap theory and how there was a previous world before this etc. and there are cool as cucumber Modalists who say that the Trinity is false and there are Jehovah's Witnesses counting their posts and Word of Faith crowds and Prosperity gospel folks and Swedenborgians and "Messianic Jews" and every stream from Arianism to whatever

We can't call them Protestant or even one particular denomination as many have a mish-mash of beliefs

[Syncro]

I agree with syncro, Rash, there are various non-Catholic Christians and the term "Protestant" is anachronistic

Thank you Cronos.

I would go a little further though and replace anachronistic with not applicable to the non Protestant and non Catholic born again Christian fellowships.

The cronological order etc etc is best left to scolars such as yourself.