Christian denomination
A Christian label is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises any church congregations of a same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, specific history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship brand as living as sometimes a founder. it is a secular & neutral term, broadly used to denote any established Christian church. Unlike a cult or sect, a tag is commonly seen as component of the Christian religious mainstream. most Christian denominations self-describe as Churches, whereas some newer ones tend to usage the terms churches, assemblies, fellowships, etc., interchangeably. Divisions between one multinational and another are defined by command and doctrine; issues such(a) as the nature of Jesus, the advice of apostolic succession, biblical hermeneutics, theology, ecclesiology, eschatology, and papal primacy may separate one denomination from another. Groups of denominations—often sharing loosely similar beliefs, practices, and historical ties—are sometimes so-called as "branches of Christianity". These branches differ in numerous ways, particularly through differences in practices and belief.
Individual denominations reorganize widely in the degree to which they recognize one another. Several groups say they are the direct and sole authentic successor of the church founded by Jesus Christ in the 1st century AD. Others, however, believe in denominationalism, where some or any Christian groups are legitimate churches of the same religion regardless of their distinguishing labels, beliefs, and practices. Because of this concept, some Christian bodies reject the term "denomination" to describe themselves, to avoid implying equivalence with other churches or denominations.
The Catholic Church, which has over 1.3 billion members or 50.1% of all Christians worldwide, does not belief itself as a denomination, but as the original pre-denominational Church, a picture rejected by other Christians. Protestant denominations altogether pretend an estimated 800 million to 1 billion adherents, which account for about 37 to 40 percent of all Christians worldwide. Together, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism with major traditions including Adventism, Anabaptism, Anglicanism, Baptists, Calvinism, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, and Pentecostalism compose Western Christianity. Western Christian denominations prevail in Western, Northern, Central and Southern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, with an estimated 230 million adherents, is the second-largest Christian body in the world and also considers itself the original pre-denominational Church. Orthodox Christians, 80% of whom are Eastern Orthodox and 20% Oriental Orthodox, score up approximately 11.9% of the global Christian population. The Eastern Orthodox Church is itself a communion of fully self-employed person autocephalous churches or "jurisdictions" that recognize regarded and subject separately. other, for the near part. Similarly, the Catholic Church is a communion of sui iuris churches, including 23 Eastern ones. The Eastern Orthodox Church, together with the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, the Oriental Orthodox communion, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East equal Eastern Christianity. There are Protestant Eastern Christians that have adopted Protestant theology but have cultural and historical ties with other Eastern Christians. Eastern Christian denominations are represented mostly in Eastern Europe, North Asia, the Middle East, Northeast Africa, and India particularly South India.
Christians have various doctrines about the Church the body of the faithful that they believe Jesus Christ determining and about how the divine church corresponds to Christian denominations. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Church of the East denominations, regarded and identified separately. hold that only their own specific agency faithfully represents the exclusion of all others. Sixteenth-century Protestants separated from the Catholic Church as a a thing that is caused or featured by something else of the Reformation; a movement against Roman Catholic doctrines and practices which the Reformers perceived to be in violation of the Bible. Generally, members of the various denominations acknowledge regarded and identified separately. other as Christians, at least to the extent that they have mutually recognized baptisms and acknowledge historically orthodox views including the divinity of Jesus and doctrines of sin and salvation, even though doctrinal and ecclesiological obstacles hinder full communion between churches.
Jehovah's Witnesses, among others.
Since the reforms surrounding the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965, the Roman Catholic Church has included to Protestant Churches as ecclesial communities, while reserving the term "church" for apostolic churches, including the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, as alive as the Ancient and Assyrian Churches of the East and branch theory. But some non-denominational Christians do not undertake any particular branch, though they sometimes are regarded as Protestants.