Perhaps it is disconcerting for ‘Christians’ to discover that their favorite denomination / sect / cult is just one among tens of thousands that belong to the Christian Club – and that there is GREAT variation in beliefs within the umbrella of ‘Christianity’.
From a current thread -- some of the major groups within 'Christianity':
Question for debate: If Christianity presents truth, WHY are there so many very different versions -- all purporting to be true (or 'The one true path')?Zzyzx wrote: 4 Eastern Orthodox
5 Catholic
5.1 Latin (Western) Church
5.2 Eastern Catholic Churches
5.2.1 Alexandrian Rite
5.2.2 Armenian Rite
5.2.3 Byzantine Rite
5.2.4 East Syriac Rite
5.2.5 West Syriac Rite
6 Protestantism
6.1 Proto-Protestant
6.2 Lutheranism
6.2.1 Radical Pietism
6.3 Anabaptism
6.3.1 Schwarzenau Brethren Movement
6.4 Anglicanism
6.4.1 Anglican Communion
6.4.1.1 United and uniting churches of the Anglican Communion
6.4.2 Other Anglican churches and Continuing Anglican movement
6.5 Methodism
6.5.1 Holiness movement
6.6 Reformed Protestantism (Calvinism)
6.6.1 Continental Reformed churches
6.6.2 Presbyterianism
6.6.3 Congregationalism
6.7 Baptists
6.7.1 Holiness Baptists
6.7.2 Spiritual Baptist
6.8 Quakers (Society of Friends)
6.8.1 Shakers
6.9 Plymouth Brethren
6.10 Irvingism and the Catholic Apostolic Church Movement
6.11 Campbellism and Millerism (Restorationist and Adventist)
6.11.1 Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
6.11.2 Early Sabbath-Keeping Movements, predating Millerism
6.11.3 Millerism and comparable groups
6.11.4 Adventist Movement (Sunday observing)
6.11.5 Adventist Movement (Seventh Day Sabbath/Saturday observing)
6.12 Pentecostal and Charismatic
6.12.1 Pentecostal Holiness Movement
6.12.2 Other Charismatic movements
6.12.3 Neo-Charismatic Movement
6.13 Uniting and United churches movement
6.13.1 Free Evangelical Churches
6.14 Evangelical Christianity and interdenominational churches
6.14.1 Chinese Evangelicalism
6.14.2 Ethiopian Evangelicalism (P'ent'ay)
6.14.3 Japanese Evangelicalism
6.14.3.1 Internet churches
7 Nontrinitarian Protestantism
7.1 Oneness Pentecostalism
7.2 Unitarian and Universalist
7.3 Nontrinitarian Restorationism
7.3.1 American Israelism and Latter Day Saint movement
7.3.1.1 "Prairie Saint" LDS denominations
7.3.1.2 "Rocky Mountain" LDS denomination(s)
7.3.1.3 Fundamentalist Rocky Mountain LDS denominations
7.3.1.4 Other LDS denominations
7.3.2 British Israelism
7.3.2.1 World Wide Church of God splinter groups
7.3.3 Bible Students and splinter groups
7.3.4 Spanish groups
7.3.5 Philippine groups
7.4 Swedenborgianism
7.5 Christian Science
7.6 Esoteric Christianity (Gnosticism)
7.7 Other Nontrinitarians
8 Other Protestant churches and movements
8.1 Asian Independent Churches
8.1.1 Chinese Independent Churches
8.1.2 Japanese Independent Churches
9 Torah Observant
10 Miscellaneous Christian groups
10.1 Independent Catholicism
10.2 Independent Eastern Orthodoxy
10.2.1 True Orthodoxy
10.2.1.1 Old Believers
10.2.2 Syncretic Eastern Orthodoxy
10.2.3 Other Independent Eastern Orthodox movements
10.3 Independent Oriental Orthodoxy
10.3.1 Syncretic Oriental Orthodoxy
10.4 Protestant Eastern Christianity
10.5 Southcottism
10.6 Christian Identity (syncretic white supremacist churches)
10.7 Independent/Isolated
