History Lesson: Positively Protestant
...When the word Protestant came into currency in England (in Elizabethan times), its accepted significance was not “objection” but “avowal” or “witness” or “confession” (as the Latin protestari meant also “to profess”)...
Ahhh. Thanks for that explanation.
All this time I thought Martin Luther was making a protest with his 95 theses at Magdeburg. Now I realize he was just professing his support for the Catholic Church.