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According to scholar Keith Smith of Georgia State University "many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history", [199] and according to scholar Peter L. Berger of Boston University "the spread of Pentecostal Christianity may be the fastest growing movement in the history of religion". [199]
Reformed Christianity also has a complicated relationship with Anglicanism, the branch of Christianity originating in the Church of England. The Anglican confessions are considered Protestant, and more specifically, Reformed, [ 15 ] and leaders of the English Reformation were influenced by Calvinist rather than Lutheran theologians.
Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the apostolic age of the church (or soon thereafter). The cessationist doctrine arose in the Reformed theology: initially in response to claims of Roman Catholic miracles.
Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria – 0.3 million [175] Reformed Church in Zambia – 0.3 million [176] Evangelical Reformed Church in Angola – 0.2 million [177] Christian Reformed Church in North America – 0.2 million [178] Evangelical Church in Kalimantan – 0.2 million [179] Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million [180]
Anglicanism or Episcopalianism has referred to itself as the via media between Lutheranism and Reformed Christianity, [89] as well as between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] The majority of Anglicans consider themselves part of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church within the Anglican Communion.
Finished Work Pentecostalism is a major branch of Pentecostalism that holds that after conversion, the converted Christian progressively grows in grace. [1] [2] On the other hand, the other branch of Pentecostalism—Holiness Pentecostalism teaches the Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctification as an instantaneous, definite second work of grace, which is a necessary prerequisite to receive the ...
Charismatic Christianity is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts as an everyday part of a believer's life. [1] It has a global presence in the Christian community. [2] Practitioners are often called charismatic Christians or renewalists.
Non-denominational Christianity (or nondenominational Christianity) consists of churches, and individual Christians, [1] [2] which typically distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities [3] by not formally aligning with a specific Christian denomination.