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LUTHERANISM N. America Scandinavian Confessional • 1839 • 1529 Luther's Catchism Lutheransim Saxon • 1817 Lutheran Marburg Colloquy LUTHERAN OF MISSOURI AND OTHER STATES • 1517 Luther's Thesis • 1530 Augsburg Confession GERMAN • 1858 • 1844 N. America United Evangelical • 1540 Altered Augsburg Confession Synod of the East • 500 United Evangelical • 1859 Synod of United Evangelical M North America Synod of the Northwest CONTINENTAL Orthodoxy EVANGELICAL • 1925 • 1877 1866 • 1872 Pietism • 1840 N. America E E UNITED GERMAN GERMAN EVANGELICAL GERMAN EVANGELICAL New SWISS-GER EVANGELICAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH SOCIETY NORTHSYNOD AMERICA OF • 1934 Enlightenment SYNOD OF SYNOD OF a D CHURCHES OF THE WEST Testament P THE WEST NORTH AMERICA 1858 1860 • 1850 Gospel s I OF GERMANY R Evangelical Church Society of Ohio EVANGELICAL Tradition t E M Calvanism A N REFORMED • 1854 N. America • 1536 Calvin's Institutes • 1563 Heidelberg REFORMED e O Evangelical Synod Hungarians Catechism V R of the East AND Zwinglianism • 1720 North America CHURCH • 1957 • 1519 Zurich • 1863 1890 r Palatines • 1792 A o T Reformation • 1747 n Holland Relations GENERAL SYNOD OF THE L m Left GERMAN SYNOD OF GERMAN E 1725 • REFORMED CHURCH Wing Falkner Swamp COETUS REFORMED CHURCHES a IN THE UNITED STATES UNITED P • 1794 S Interrelations • 1820 C n ANABAPTISM Methodists England and the Continent Virginia GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE a N. Carolina T • 1801 A Free Marian Exiles CHRISTIAN CHURCH CHURCH t Baptists 1832 New Evangelical P Churches England T EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT CHURCHES Protestant A Church OF r • 1801 • 1830 • 1846 a Presbyterians • 1534 H Kentucky General Break from Rome GERMAN CONGRATIONAL CHURCHES i N Conference p • 1852 1553 Mary • To Disciples of Christ CHRIST a O • 1558 CONGREGATIONAL METHODIST CHURCHES a A N G L IC A N IS M Elizabeth T Puritanism • Dissentism • Nonconformity • Separatism • 1871 1887 1925 1931 r L • 1620 N. America 1846 l Plymouth Pilgrims • 1550 • 1628 Massachusetts Bay Pilgrims NATIONAL COUNCIL OF c I GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE I Westward Expansion and CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN One h CONGREGATIONALISM CONGREGATIONALCHURCHES C S • 1648 Cambridge Platform (Westminster Confession) Associational Consolidation CHURCHES Holy • 1708 Saybrook Platform Conference Expansion a • 1913 Kansas City Statement I • 1801 1852 • Catholic M • 1706 N. America Plan of Union UNITED l PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA S 1858 • UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA PRESBYTERIAN Church • 1861 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES CHURCH IN THE U.S.A. Scottish M BRITISH From Christian Churches Irish Thomas and Alexander Campbell DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

• 1054 REFORMATION • 1784 N. America • 1563 Thirty-Nine Articles • 1729 Wesley's Holy Club East-West METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH seperation • 1607 N. America METHODISM • 1839 METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH • 1845 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH

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• 1545 • 1565 N. America Council of Trent PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1563 • Carl E. Schneider, Ph.D. St. Augustine, Florida Eden Theological Seminary Webster Groves, Mo. ROMAN • Circa 1800 N. America EDEN PUBLISHING HOUSE St. Louis, Missouri Copyright © 1966 EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES Redrawn by Scott Holl, 2005