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Classifying Christian faith groups and belief systems:

Today, there are many ways of classifying the over 1,500 faith groups in North America that consider themselves to be Christian. One can sort them:

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

Some theological belief systems and movements are listed below.

	Anglo-Israelism & British Israelism World Wide Church of God
	Arminianism
	Calvinism
	Christian Identity Movement
	Evangelical wing of Christianity
	Progressive Christianity
	Dominionism (a.k.a. Reconstructionist Movement, Dominion theology, Theonomy)
	"Faith segment" criteria used by the Barna Group -- the main U.S. religious polling group
	Essays on many more topics remain to be written
	Related topics: Reacting to religious diversity: Exclusivism, pluralism, inclusivism Christian beliefs on the status of Jews: Supercessionism & dual covenant belief Competing theories about the "end times" and millennialism Essay by Rabbi Allen Maller: One God with Many Faces: A religious view of pluralism

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