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What should be done about those hanging lists, under Catholicism? should we just collapse them into a single long list? Do they belong together? I don't know anything about most of them. Mkmcconn 06:06, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
For sure some of them are not in the communion with Holy See, but they are not of the Protestant tradition. There are for exemple a group of Old-Catholic churches or Polish Christian churches (Mariavite, Polish Catholic). I started the division, but I don't know how to call them :( Slawojarek 11:52, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I'm wondering if many of them are simply the same Eastern churches listed above, called "Catholic" instead of "Orthodox". Is there an "Ethiopian Catholic", as well as an "Ethiopian Orthodox"? Mkmcconn 15:50, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Evangelical Free Church
I've added the Evangelical Free Church of America to the Protestant list under "Misc. movement churches". I'm not sure if there is a better place to put them, and perhaps someone who is more familiar with them can make a better decision. They have roots in Scandinavian Lutheranism, pietism, and American revivalism. They have been variously categorized. For example, the 11th edition of Handbook of Denominations places them under "Brethren" churches, which has some merit, but which I personally think is more confusing than helpful. The Encyclopedia of American Religions groups them as Pietist, which is probably historically correct, but to me does not seem to capture the current status of the body. The Polis Denominational Taxonomy (http://www.polis.iupui.edu/RUC/Research/Glenmary_by_Polis_Types_as_table.htm) lists them as "Evangelical Protestant (Revivalist/Rational)", which we, of course, do not have here. Anyway, if someone comes up with a better solution, please move the Evangelical Free Church. - Rlvaughn 17:43, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
-Looks good to me...the problem with this entire page is that, in America, despite so many splinter groups formed, now there are broad movements that freely cross lines of the old groups. There's a lot of cross pollination (wouldn't you expect that from a beekeeper, eh?) that's gone on. Among evangelicals, shared music, worship styles, para-church groups, shared concerns, etc., have blurred old lines. In the camp meeting areas of the South you can visit a Methodist or Baptist church, and can only tell the difference in worship styles in subtle ways (not to speak of the Free Will Baptists). Folks from the confessing movement within the Presbyterian Church or the confessing movement within the United Methodist Church have more in common with each other than with the liberal elements within the respective churches. It almost seems like there should be a caveat, or boilerplate on this page, to warn people that heritage is not the only factor in what makes a church today, that rigid lines on a chart are not entirely descriptive of the fact... Pollinator 02:56, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Celtic Christianity
Is Celtic Christianity really a part of Catholicism or is it a part of Orthodoxy? I know that it could be classified as Catholicism in the loose sense, as could most other Christian churches. What I mean is, since it is not a part of the Catholic Communion, is it a church historically related to the Roman Catholic Church? If it isn't, then shouldn't it go under Orthodoxy? Pmadrid 13:09, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The answer is complicated, and a fair argument could probably be made either way. I think I would argue for it to be included under Orthodoxy, based on the (probably biased) articles found at http://www.orthodoxireland.com/history. Bear in mind that true "Celtic Christianity" has been gone for a while now, just as true Celts have apparently been gone for a while, so it's really a matter of how you interpret history. Wesley 15:51, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Church of the East
I couldn't find The Church of the East on this page? Is it here? Can somebody help me? Tom 18:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Which one -the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Church of the East, the American Church of the East, Syrian Orthodox Church of the East, Orthodox Church of the East, or others. Generally they fall under Nestorian churches. Rmhermen 21:32, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
Church of Christ, Scientist
The double-asterisked suggestion it could alternately be categorized as one of the New Thought churches is really not accurate. Notwithstanding some borrowed language by NT, there are pretty strong antitheses between NT and CS. NT is arguably an offshoot of CS by way of disaffected students of Eddy with eclectic influxes of Asian thought and deification of man, but that does not by any stretch harmonize CS to NT. That labelling would be analogous to classifying the People's Temple under the label of mainstream Christianity simply because that's where Jim Jones got his start. It's my plan to pull the comment/note. Chris Rodgers 09:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Red-linked denominations
Is anyone double-checking the actual existence of the red-linked denominations? Someone just added "Calvinistic Churches, USA" but I get no Google hits at all for either "Calvinistic Churches USA" or "Calvinist Churches USA". So it seems there is not really any such group. I haven't deleted it, though, because I think deletion should be consistent. Is anyone else keeping an eye on the red links? --Angr 07:04, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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