What are the major types of Christianity?

Answer 1

This is a very broad question and I will try to cover various possible meanings. Different types of Christianity since the very beginning of Christianity:

• Gnostic Christianity
• Literalism, or the Gospel tradition
• proto-Christianity - a hypothetical branch of Christianity that may predate Gnosticism and the Gospel tradition. Some scholars say that there were three strands of proto-Christianity by the middle of the first century - the Simonians, Paulists and Ebionites.

There were many strands of Gnostic Christianity in early times, but there only ever seems to have been one early strand of Literalism, also known as the Catholic-Orthodox tradition. These were probably of somewhat equal size in terms of adherents until the fourth century, when the Catholic-Orthodox tradition became dominant. Pockets of Gnostic Christianity survived in isolated, defensible areas of the eastern Empire and in the Persian Empire for several centuries. Other traditions which followed are:

• Coptics, in Egypt
• Jacobites, in the Middle East
• Nestorians, in the eastern Middle East and much of Asia
• Arianism
• The Great Schism of 1054 created the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches from the previous dominant branch of Christianity
• Cathars, actually a late form of Gnostic Christianity, that migrated from eastern Europe via Germany to southern France and parts of Spain and Italy, where it survived for several centuries.
• Protestantism

The Lutheran Church was the first Protestant Church, but many others followed, too many to list. Baptists formed a congregation in Holland soon after the Reformation began, but usually insist that they are not a Protestant denomination. So, we must allow other denominations in the Protestant mould, which claim not to be Protestant, such as Pentecostal Churches and independent churches. Adventist Churches evolved in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Mormonism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, can reasonably claim to be Christian, although most other Christians dispute this categorisation because many Mormon beliefs seem strongly non-Christian.

Answer 2

yes there are different denominations, but theyre basically believe the same thing that Jesus is the son of God , died fo our sins, ressurected 3 days later and ascended into heaven all this information can be found in The Bible the book that tells how the earth was created, Jesus' life, and to description of heaven

Answer 3

Non-denominational Christianity believes in following the Bible and loving God and people in a good caring way. As do social Christians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Catholics. The religions that are not Christian are: the Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, and Jesuit religions.

Answer 4

There is Lutheran, Catholic, Prodestant, Roman Catholic and Nazarene.

Answer 5

Fundamentalist, Orthodox, Mormonism, Protestantism, Anglicanism and Catholicism, Jehovah's Witness, Baptist to name a few all from the root of Judaism.

Answer 6

There are technically 4 main branches of Christianity: Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant.