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Churches of Christ – autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another, seeking to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and seeking to be New Testament congregations as originally established by the authority of Christ.
Organized religion, also known as institutional religion, is religion in which belief systems and rituals are systematically arranged and formally established, typically by an official doctrine (or dogma), a hierarchical or bureaucratic leadership structure, and a codification of proper and improper behavior.
Autocephaly (/ ɔː t ə ˈ s ɛ f əl i /; from Greek αὐτοκεφαλία (autokephalia) 'self-headed') [1] is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. [2] The term is primarily used in Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Assyrian Christianity comprises those Eastern churches who kept the traditional Nestorian christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East after the original church reunited with the Catholic Church in Rome, forming the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1552. Assyrian Christianity forms part of the Syriac Christian tradition.
Religious stratification is the division of a society into hierarchical layers on the basis of religious beliefs, affiliation, or faith practices.. According to Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "[t]he reason why religion is necessary is apparently to be found in the fact that human society achieves its unity primarily through the possession by its members of certain ultimate values and ...
A denomination within Christianity can be defined as a "recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church"; major synonyms include "religious group, sect, Church," etc. [Note 1] [32] "Church" as a synonym, refers to a "particular Christian organization with its own clergy, buildings, and distinctive doctrines"; [33] "church" can also more ...
A post shared on Facebook claims the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has listed Christianity as an extremist group in its Glossary of Extremism and Hate. Verdict: Misleading The ADL lists Christian ...
Religious hierarchy may refer to: Hierarchical organization , hierarchical structure as applied to all organizations, including some religions Religious stratification , the stratification of society based on religious beliefs or other faith-based considerations