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Classifying Christian faith groups and belief systems:

Today, there are many ways of classifying the over 1,000 Christian faith groups in North America:

bulletInto three or four meta-groups (e.g. Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and perhaps Anglican),
bulletBy "wing" (e.g. conservative, mainline, and liberal),
bulletBy religious family, (Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, etc.)
bulletBy denomination (From the Amish to The Way), and
 
bulletBy theological belief system (Calvinism, Arminianism, etc.; They often cut across denominational boundaries.) See below.

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Some theological belief systems and movements are listed below.

bulletAnglo-Israelism & British Israelism
bulletWorld Wide Church of God
 
bulletArminianism
 
bulletCalvinism
 
bulletChristian Identity Movement
 
bulletEvangelical wing of Christianity
 
bulletProgressive Christianity
 
bulletDominionism (a.k.a. Reconstructionist Movement, Dominion theology, Theonomy)
 
bullet"Faith segment" criteria used by the Barna Group -- the main U.S. religious polling group
 
bulletEssays on many more topics remain to be written

 
bulletRelated topics:
bulletReacting to religious diversity: Exclusivism, pluralism, inclusivism
bulletChristian beliefs on the status of Jews: Supercessionism & dual covenant belief
bulletCompeting theories about the "end times" and millennialism

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