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23 Cards in this Set
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Denomination
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religious organization united under a single legal/ administration body and subscribing to a set creed/code
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Ecumenism
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the movement to unite Christians
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Evangelize
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spread the "Good News" (Gospel)
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Proselytize
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to try to convert
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Orthodox
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-2nd oldest christian denomination/ 2nd largest
-basis in apostolic tradition -great east/west schism -Divine liturgy/ iconostasis -7 sacraments -married male clergy |
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Lutherans
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-Martin Luther
-Book Of Concord -Salvation= grace/faith/scripture -ministers are both men and women -infant baptism and Lord's supper -ELCA and Missouri Synod- ministries |
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Presbyterians
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roots in calvanism
church of scotland infant baptism and "symbolic presence" predestination--> gospel of wealth elders/synods (authority) Book of Confessions |
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Episcopal Church
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-Henry VIII
-Anglican Communion -Episcopal Authority + Ordinances- marriage; Sacraments- baptism, communion; -Book of Common Prayer -Ecumenical Dialogue (welcoming, extremely tolerant) no pope |
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Methodists
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-John Wesley (Anglican Priest)
-Revival Movement- Methods of Piety -Thomas Coke (Baltimore) - less sacramental, more biblical -1968: The United Methodist Church |
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Anabaptist
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-Baptists- English Separatist (John Smyth, Roger Williams)
- Congregational Autonomy - no infant baptism - Emphasis on Scripture- Moraltiy - Variety of worship styles |
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Religious Society of Friends
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- Quakers
- George Fox - "inner light"- religious certainty/ assurance - rejection of outward signs of religion (sacraments, institutions, rituals, ministers) - Nonconformist, Pacifist - tolerant, no formal structure - no hierarchy |
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Mennonite/ Amish/ Brethren
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- Menno Simmons
- Strict followers of New Testament - Amish- Jacob Amman- Split over shunning - Church of the Brethren- Alexander Mack - 3X Baptism and Holy Communion |
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Millenialist Groups
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- Emphasize 2nd coming of Christ to judge the living and the dead
- 1,000 years of bliss - 19th Century America = expectation/prediction -> Adventist - William Miller (Baptist Minister... founder) |
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Adventist
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Seventh Day Adventist
- James and Ellen White - Saturday Worship - Judgment began 1844 |
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Jehovah Witnesses
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- broke away from adventists
- Charles Taze Russell - The Watchtower (book of their beliefs) - worship in Kingdom Halls - Christ and 144,000 have immortal souls - Theocratic Kingdom- no army, no oaths, no politics |
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Branch Davidians
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-offshoot of radical Adventists
- Victor T. Houteff founder - key player: David Koresh - Waco, TX - OK City |
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Mormon
- Joseph Smith (Angel Moroni) - Book of Mormon (lost tribes of Israel) - Missionary activism, strict morals, Marriage, Family, no drinking, no cursing, no caffeine - president (no pope) |
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Church of Christian Scientist
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- founder, Mary Baker Eddy
- Christ healed by spiritual influence - Science and Health - Christ will lead us to the truth that God is good and there is no room for sickness |
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Pentecostalism
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- rooted in Holiness Movement
- Sanctification by baptism of the Holy Ghost - Glossolalia (speaking in tongues) - Charles Parham - W.J. Seymour - Second Coming - prevalent in the West |
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Roman Catholicism
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- Apostolic Tradition
- Pope - Formal Hierarchial Structure - Male celibate priesthood - Scripture/ Tradition - Sacramental Worship "Real Presence" - Communion of Saints |
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Byzantine Rite
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- Ukrainian Catholic Church
- Authority of the Pope - branch of Catholicism |
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Church of the New Jerusalem
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- Emmanuel Swedenborg
- Academy of the New Church- Bryn Athyn Cathedral - Celestial Marriage |
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Church of Scientology
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NON CHRISTIAN
- new age spirituality - L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetics |
