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Denominationalism is the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations
Religious denomination

A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition and identity.The term describes various Christian denominations ....
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stianity can be divided into denominational families and individual denominations (or communions
Communion (Christian)

The term Communion is derived from Latin language communio . The corresponding term in Greek language is ???????a, which is often translated as "fellowship"....
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Denominational families include:

These denominational families can be further divided into denominational sub-families and various individual denominations or communions.






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Denominationalism is the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations
Religious denomination

A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition and identity.The term describes various Christian denominations ....
.

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Buddhism


Christianity

Christianity can be divided into denominational families and individual denominations (or communions
Communion (Christian)

The term Communion is derived from Latin language communio . The corresponding term in Greek language is ???????a, which is often translated as "fellowship"....
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Denominational families include:
  • Adventism
  • Anglicanism
    Anglicanism

    Anglicanism is a tradition of Christianity faith. Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs, worship and church structures....
  • Anabaptist
    Anabaptist

    Anabaptists are Christianity of the Radical Reformation. Various groups at various times have been called Anabaptist, but the term is most commonly used to refer to the Anabaptists of 16th century Europe....
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  • Baptist
    Baptist

    A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
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  • Catholicism
    Catholicism

    Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its Theology and doctrines, its Catholic liturgy, Ethics, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
  • Congregationalism
  • Lutheranism
    Lutheranism

    Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century Germans Reformer Martin Luther....
  • Methodism
    Methodism

    Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley that sought to keep Methodism as a Revivalism movement within the Church of England....
  • Eastern Orthodox
  • Pentecostalism
    Pentecostalism

    Pentecostalism is a renewalist religious movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on the direct personal experience of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit....
  • Presbyterianism
    Presbyterianism

    Presbyterianism is a group of Christian congregations adhering to the Calvinism theological tradition within Protestantism. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Bible and the necessity of Divine grace through faith in Christ....
  • Reformed churches
    Reformed churches

    The Reformed churches are a group of Christian Protestant Christian denomination formally characterized by a similar Calvinism system of doctrine, historically related to the churches that first arose especially in the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli and soon afterward appeared in nations throughout Western and Central Europe....
     (Calvinism
    Calvinism

    Calvinism is a theology system and an approach to the Christian life that emphasizes the rule of God over all things. It was developed by several theologians, but it bears the name of the French Protestant Reformation John Calvin because of his prominent influence on it and because of his role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates t...
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These denominational families can be further divided into denominational sub-families and various individual denominations or communions. The distinction between a denomination and a denominational family is sometimes fuzzy.

Individual denominations or communions include:
  • The Anglican Communion
    Anglican Communion

    The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....
     (Anglican family)
  • The Southern Baptist Convention
    Southern Baptist Convention

    The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based, mostly conservative Christian denomination. The name "Southern" stems from its having been founded and rooted in the Southern United States....
     (Baptist family)
  • The Reformed Church in America
    Reformed Church in America

    The Reformed Church in America is a Mainline Reformed Protestant denomination that was formerly a part of the Dutch Reformed Church and known as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of North America....
     (Reformed family)
  • The Roman Catholic Church
    Roman Catholic Church

    The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
     (Catholic family)


Some Christians view denominationalism as a regrettable fact. The current trend as of 2005 is that the divisions are becoming less sharp, and there is an increasing cooperation between denominations. (See denomination
Religious denomination

A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition and identity.The term describes various Christian denominations ....
 for a distinction between denomination and association in religious governance.)

Theological
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
 denominationalism ultimately denies reality to any apparent doctrinal differences among the "denominations", reducing all differences to mere matters de nomina ("of names").

A denomination in this sense is created when part of a church no longer feel they can accept the leadership of that church as a spiritual leadership due to a different view of doctrine or what they see as immoral behaviour, but the schism does not in any way reflect either group leaving the Church as a theoretical whole.

This particular doctrine is, of course, unacceptable to those Christian
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 groups that see themselves as being the "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" as a whole. This includes Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism
Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its Theology and doctrines, its Catholic liturgy, Ethics, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
 and the Oriental Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy is the communion of Eastern Christianity Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils ? the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the Council of Ephesus....
, each of which claims to be the subsistence of the exclusive "Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church". In these denominations, it is not possible to have a separation over doctrinal or leadership issues, and any such attempts automatically are a type of schism
Schism (religion)

The word schism , from the Greek language s??s?a, skh?sma , means a split or a division, usually in an organization or a movement. A schismatic is a person who creates or incites schism in an organization or who is a member of a splinter group....
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