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By Lucia Weeks


A denomination, in Christian sense of term, is a religious organization that works with a name, a structure or joint doctrine. Denominationalism is itself a point of view that some or all Christian groups are, in some sense, versions of same thing, despite its distinctive features (Church in Lake Almanor). Not all denominations teach this: the vast majority of Christians belong to church that although partially accept the validity of other groups, consider the multiplication of slopes as a problem. Christian fundamentalism can get to consider the existence of so many denominations as an indication of sectarianism.

Anglicanism, for example, has never been fully identified as Protestant, even from the appearance of Oxford Movement in nineteenth century, led by John Henry Newman, Anglican writers were prompted to define more clearly the Catholic involvement of its churches, characterizing the Anglicanism then as an average, Protestant and Catholic pathway simultaneously.

Western Christians insisted that the Patriarch of Rome was to maintain a special position of authority over the patriarchs of church other cities (Patriarch of Alexandria, Patriarch of Antioch, Patriarch of Constantinople and even on the Patriarch of Jerusalem). However, the Eastern Christians claimed that all the patriarchs were of equal authority, having neither overrides jurisdictions outside own. The schism took hold and for centuries each churches regarded the other as a cause of division and was only under the papacy of John Paul II that the first significant to improve relations between the Churches of Rome and the Eastern Church reforms were made.

Comparisons between different denominational groups must be made with caution. In some groups, such congregations are part of a monolithic churches organization; whereas in other groups, each congregation is an independent autonomous organization. Numerical comparisons are also problematic: most groups have members only adult baptized, although some account both baptized adults and children (whether baptized or not).

In Bohemia, a region of Orthodox majority, the occupation of Papal States (a militarily most powerful state that the rear Holy) resulted in imposition of Catholicism, but a movement was started in early fourteenth century by Jan Hus (their Hussite followers were called) to challenge the teachings of Churches of Rome (Hussite Wars). Later the group would lead to Moravian Brethren and reborn with other names but as part of Protestant Reformation.

The degree of mutual acceptance between different denominations, churches and Protestant movements is diverse, but tends to increase with the emergence of Christian ecumenical movements during the twentieth century and multilateral organizations like the World Council of Churches. Protestant theology for each denomination is generally defined by bodies themselves down and synthesized inir respective Statements of Faith.

Written originally as a series of complaints to encourage reform of Western Churches, not even remotely intended to achieve the effect they achieved, the texts of Luther, combined with the work of Swiss theologian Ulrich Zwingli and French theologian John Calvin, led to breakdown of European Catholic Christianity and founded what has become probably the second largest branch of modern Christianity (after Roman Catholicism), the so-called Protestantism.

After the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the next major split occurred between the Syrian and Alexandrian Churches (also called Egyptian or Coptic Churches), who separated under the Monophysite doctrine (Pope John Paul II and the Syrian Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas signed late twentieth century, a Christological declaration of faith in common). These Monophysite Church are known as non-Chalcedonian Church, differing from the Orthodox Churches to accept only the resolutions of first three Ecumenical Councils.




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