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Monotheism Polytheism Atheism LUTHERAN PRESBYTERIAN � MARTIN LUTHER � WESTMINSTER CONFESSION ATHEISM � REFORMATION THEOLOGY � BOTH CONSERVATIVE & BELIEF IN � CREEDS � INFANT BAPTISM LIBERAL GROUPS ATHEISTS & NONRELIGIOUS � LITURGICAL WORSHIP �WORSHIP CENTERS ON NO GOD � REJECT SUPERNATURALISM PREACHING BUDDHISM UNITED CHURCH � ONLY MAJOR RELIGION THAT DOES NOT TEACH A LIVING GOD REFORMED (SOME FORMS HAVE “IMPERSONAL DEITIES”) � REINCARNATION � NIRVANA � FLOWS FROM THEOLOGY OF CHRIST � PILGRIM FATHERS’ � MEDITATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, SEARCH FOR PEACE, ENLIGHTENMENT OF ZWINGLI & CALVIN � SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD CHURCH � PREDESTINATION � ECUMENICAL � LIMITED ATONEMENT BAPTIST � ETERNAL SECURITY � LARGEST BLOCK OF � INERRANCY OF SCRIPTURE NORTH AMERICAN CHURCH OF � EMPHASIS ON CREEDS PROTESTANTS EASTERN ORTHODOXY � INFANT BAPTISM � MOST ARE CALVINIST THE BRETHREN (GREEK & RUSSIAN ORTHODOX) � PRESBYTERIAN FORM MENNONITES � EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CHURCHES OF GOVERNMENT � PACIFIST SPLIT FROM ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH � SIMPLE LIFESTYLE REJECTS PAPAL SUPREMACY JUDAISM � AUTHORITY IN BISHOPS � MOSES � HIGHLY LITURGICAL, ANCIENT & CHURCHES OF CHRIST/DISCIPLES � LAW (TORAH) SYMBOLIC WORSHIP � RABBINICAL � VENERATION OF ICONS OF CHRIST/CHRISTIAN CHURCH COMMENTARY � SALVATION OCCURS AT BAPTISM (TALMUD) � EMPHASIZE MENTAL ASSENT TO FAITH ANABAPTIST/BELIEVERS’ � WEEKLY COMMUNION CHURCH � SEEKS TO RESTORE NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY PROTESTANTISM � ADULT BAPTISM ONLY INDEPENDENT BIBLE CHURCHES � ORIGINATED IN � BIBLE IS MANUAL FOR � FUNDAMENTALIST � INDEPENDENT BRETHREN IN CHRIST 16TH-CENTURY CHURCH GOVERNMENT � ANTI-ECUMENICAL � CALVINIST CHRISTIANITY BREAK WITH ROMAN � MISSIONARY MINDED LATE � JESUS CHRIST CATHOLIC CHURCH � STRESSES INDEPENDENCE 1800s (ONLY SON OF GOD) (REFORMATION) LED � SIMPLE WORSHIP MONOTHEISM � THE TRINITY BY LUTHER, ZWINGLI � CONGREGATIONAL � OLD & NEW 1054 & CALVIN FORM OF GOVERNMENT BELIEF IN TESTAMENTS � JUSTIFICATION EVANGELICAL FRIENDS � SALVATION IN BY GRACE THROUGH ONE GOD CHRIST ALONE FAITH QUAKERS (FRIENDS) � 7 ECUMENICAL � SCRIPTURE IS SOLE CHURCH OF GOD COUNCILS AUTHORITY FOR FAITH & LIFE WESLEYAN-HOLINESS CHURCHES � BORN OUT OF 19TH-CENTURY HOLINESS � PRIESTHOOD OF (ANDERSON, IN) REVIVALS � UNITY � HOLINESS ALL BELIEVERS � SIMPLE WORSHIP � WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ANGLICAN METHODIST � ACCEPTED PIETISM EMPHASIS � COMBINES PROTESTANT & � STEMS FROM 18TH-CENTURY � SANCTIFICATION BOTH INSTANTANEOUS CATHOLIC IDEAS REVIVAL LED BY JOHN & & PROGRESSIVE ISLAM � BOOK OF CHARLES WESLEY � REVIVAL ORIENTED � MUHAMMAD COMMON PRAYER � SALVATION AVAILABLE TO ALL � MISSIONARY MINDED & QURAN PRIMARY � SCRIPTURE IS AUTHORITATIVE ● ARMINIAN ● SANCTIFICATION � CONSERVATIVE IN THEOLOGY NAZARENE AUTHORITIES ● EMPHASIZES WORSHIP AS SECOND WORK � EMPHASIS ON PERSONAL ETHICS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OVER CREEDS ● MISSIONARY MINDED � APPEAL TO THE POOR � PAPAL SUPREMACY � PRIEST AS ● INFANT BAPTISM MEDIATOR BETWEEN MAN & GOD � EPISCOPAL FORM OF FREE � VENERATION OF MARY/SAINTS GOVERNMENT ● WORKS/GRACE VITAL TO SALVATION METHODIST ● LITURGICAL WORSHIP CENTERED IN 1520 UNITED METHODIST LORD’S SUPPER ● PURGATORY EPISCOPAL � COMBINES EVANGELICAL � EMPHASIZES BEAUTY OF WORSHIP & LIBERAL METHODISTS WESLEYAN IN LITURGY & RITUAL. � SOCIAL ACTIVISM � PROGRESSIVE SANCTIFICATION � PASTORS APPOINTED BY BISHOPS SALVATION PRIMITIVE TRIBAL RELIGIONS ARMY � GODS ARE SEEN THROUGHOUT NATURE AFRICAN METHODIST � ANIMISM � ANCESTOR WORSHIP THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED ILLUSTRATION EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CHURCH HISTORY. IT IS NOT A � 19TH-CENTURY SPLIT BASED PENTECOSTAL/ POLYTHEISM ON RACIAL ISSUES HINDUISM PERFECT REPRESENTATION. CHARASMATIC BELIEF IN � THOUSANDS OF GODS MANY GODS � REINCARNATION � KARMA.
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