The Christianity Outline Continues
The effort at outlining Christianity continues... Thank you all for the previous input! According to www.religioustolerance.org there are currently at least 1,200 distinct Christian sects within North America at this time.
I. The Old Churches
A. The Roman Catholic Church
B. The Eastern Orthodox Church
1. The Russian Orthodox Church
2. The Greek Orthodox Church
C. The Coptic Churches (Egypt, Ethiopia, etc.)
D. The Nestorian Churches
II. The Protestant Churches (rising from protest against the Catholic church)
A. Lutherans
B. Anglican/Episcopal
1. Church of England
2. Methodists
a. Fundamentalists
b. Nazarene
C. Calvinists
1. Presbyterians
2. Christian Reformed
3. The Huguenots
D. Anabaptists
1. Baptists
a. Southern Baptists
b. American Baptists
c. Born Again
2. Quakers
3. Shakers
4. The Amish
5. Mennonites
III. The Pentecostal Churches (coming from a movement to return to the true roots of Christianity, additionally Pentecostals believe in speaking in tongues and possession by the holy spirit).
A. Church of God
B. Apostilistic Pentecostals
IV. The churches who added some stuff on (wait, this isn't in the Bible!)
A. Mormons
B. Christian Scientists
C. Seventh Day Adventists
D. The Jehovah’s Witnesses
V. The fusion religions (when African slaves, and sometimes aboriginal peoples too, were forced to convert to Catholicism in the colonies, some interesting stuff happened) If anyone has a better name for this category, or any additional regligions to add on, I'd be highly interested.
A. Santeria
B. Voodoo (Hoodoo, Voudoun)
C. Rastafarians
Again I fear I might be mucking this up, so corrections are welcome.
And a final question, that Sean and I are disagreeing over: Do Christians believe Jesus was God or someone separate from God? For example I say that the concept of the trinity is that three parts: the father, the son (Jesus), and the holy spirit are seen as coming together to form one God. Sean says this is not true and that in Christianity there is one God, and then Jesus is the son of that God.
Also having difficulty with the whole who prays to whom and why bit of it.