/christianity/ - Christian Theology

>>1198

I can tell that you are unfamiliar with Orthodoxy.

>>1205

What change would you make?

>>1206

Well I wouldn't call the Russian and Greeks as separate denominations, as it is a little more nuanced than that. We are the same Orthodox despite ethnicity or location. Otherwise, you would have to make a separate category for Serbian, Romanian, Ukrainian…etc. Maybe you could put schismatics on there as categories, like Russian Old Believers and the Old Calendarists.

>>1207

The others don't have significant numbers in the US

Could you add the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to the top row?

They're arguably more conservative overall than the PCA.

>>1201

There are also Old Believers, other Eastern Orthodox churches, Oriental Orthodoxy and its churches, the Church of the East (the Old Calendarists "Ancient" and New Calendarists "Assyrian") under "Scripture and tradition." Also Old Catholics and other Catholic groups out of communion with Rome.

Under "Scripture alone" you obviously have a lot more, from memory you're missing Primitive/Reformed Baptists, the Oneness Pentecostals, a lot of other Restorationists (Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Mormons, Iglesia ni Cristo), the Waldensians and Moravians (which predate Luther, although modern Waldensians aren't very faithful to original Waldensian beliefs, since they initially rejected infant baptism), and the Anabaptists and their sects.

You forgot the Seventh-Day Adventist Reform Movement.

>>1598

>>1602

>>1597

The included denominations were taken from pew's religious landscape survey

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

These smaller groups weren't statistically significant. Maybe the chart should read "Major Christian Denominations in the US"

Anglicans belong under scripture and tradition

>>1623

Is that true? Does an Anglican confession say that?

And what about methodism, is the Wesleyan quadrilateral a disagreement with the evangelical sole sufficiency of scripture?

>>1626

Anglicans claim their faith is based on "Scripture, Tradition, and Reason".

They've always tried to be a Via Media (that is, Middle Way) between Rome and Reform.

That's why the Puritans (God bless them) had such issues with it and eventually left.

The fact that they've embraced sodomy, women clergy, and most of their own ministers don't even believe in God is testament enough to its apostasy.

Come out of her, my people!

>>1627

Liberalism is a depressing phenomenon with a hand in every tradition at present, but theologically is it the case that tradition and reason are equivalent or above scripture? Is that in a Creed?

>>1629

United Methodist is no longer Sodomite tier from what I understand

>>1629

We should really make our own "denom" because the churches are usually corrupt. Read through the entire bible then make conclusions. As followers of christ it is our duty to spread his gospel far and wide even if we have to go through hell in order to do so.

>>1629

I made it here hehe >>1404

glad you saved it

It's an accurate generalization

The chart is entirely based on how the gospel is taught to the laypeople. At the top are the major evangelical denominations (plus OPC who are small). Evangelicalism is predicated on the inerrancy of scripture and holding the gospel as the central issue of all church practice.

Mid tier are the US conservative, zealous denominations that have aberrant theology on secondary issues (deriving from charismaticism, questionably cultic origin)

Low tier are badly compromising on the gospel for some agenda, but the gospel can still be heard.

"False Gospel" tier teach the anti-biblical heresy of works salvation and are filled with nominals in it for the cultural heritage.

Sodomite tier are not Christian. They are sold out to the sexual revolution. See "Christianity and Liberalism" by J Gresham Machen (1946)

Cult tier are decidedly apart from the title "christian" in the historical, sociological sense.

These groups were loosely taken from pew's religious landscape survey which indicated the denominations of the greatest size.

>>1631

The UMC voted not to revise their official doctrinal documents entirely because of conservative continental African voters. The US denomination has been flying the sodomite flag in the face of their doctrine for decades.

>>1633

Nice, thanks for the detailed run-down. I was raised catholic but have started researching protestantism a bit and have notices I lean more towards that side now. It's not that I hate the catholic church, I just don't agree with how they place their traditions in such a high authority and a few other things. With that in mind I'm trying to figure out which protestant denom I'd move to if I do eventually decide to make the switch.

>>1627

Don't pretend that Anglicanism has a single monolithic position

>>1626

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/authority-sources-anglicanism

Anglicanism: Scripture, tradition, reason

http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/wesleyan-quadrilateral

Methodism: Scripture, tradition, reason, experience

>>1629

kek

Here's my timeline

The Scriptures (TR, KJV) —-→ Bible believers —-→ IFB

Babylon —-→ Catholic/Orthodox/JW/Mormons/Pentecostals/etc.

>>1956

now this is epic