Home›Christianity›Founded ByBrowse ByFounded ByThis page groups denominations by the person credited with founding them. Wikipedia notes that the "Jehovah's Witnesses, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell," trace directly to one named founder. Browsing by founder lets a visitor trace a denomination back to the individual who broke away and started it.FactsLearn MoreFounded BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe branches of Christianity, divided chiefly over authority - who may define doctrine - and over the sacraments, the ordering of ministry and the reading of scripture. The main fault lines are the Christological divisions of the fifth century, the East-West schism conventionally dated 1054, and the sixteenth-century Reformation. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedContested: denomination arose in English-speaking Protestantism for bodies that recognise one another as legitimately named parts of one church. The Catholic and Orthodox churches do not accept it as a description of themselves. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDenominations 1AttestationEra of AttestationWell-attestedThe first enduring divisions date from the Christological controversies of the fifth century, at Ephesus in 431 and Chalcedon in 451, and not from the Reformation. 2Learn MoreThe Branches of Christianity This group gathers the denominations of Christianity, the world's largest religion, whose two-thousand-year history has produced a wide family of churches divided by doctrine, authority, liturgy and history. The major fault lines are the split between the Eastern and Western churches (traditionally dated 1054) and the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The browser will find the great communions, Roman Catholicism, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the many Protestant families (Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and more), together with older and smaller bodies. The entries describe each branch's distinctive teachings and origins without treating any one as the standard against which the others are measured.Unity and division Christian denominations share the core confession of Jesus Christ while differing over questions such as church authority, the sacraments, the role of scripture and tradition, and the path of salvation. Some divisions are ancient and doctrinal; others are national, cultural or the result of later revival and reform. The atlas presents each denomination in its own terms, noting where it stands on the questions that separate it from others and how it understands its relation to the wider Christian body, from claims of unique continuity to the ecumenical movement that seeks reunion.Founded ByFilter Results10 entriesAlso Known AsAllEddy (1)Ellen Gould Harmon (1)Current StatusAllThe Church of Jesus Christ on Earth through his special envoy Simon Kimbangu was legally recognised in 1959, joined the World Council of Churches in 1969 as the first African initiated church admitted, and now has several million members. (1)Defining MomentAllA conviction, reached around 1647, that Christ could speak directly to a person's condition without ordained clergy or church buildings (1)A series of revelations while imprisoned in Manchester convinced her she was called to lead a celibate community awaiting Christ's Second Appearing, and in 1774 she led a small band of followers to America to found what became the Shakers. (1)Attended the 1907 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles and received what he described as baptism in the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues, returning to lead the Church of God in Christ into the Pentecostal movement. (1)Attributed her recovery from a serious injury in 1866 to a reading of a New Testament healing account, an experience she held to be the discovery of Christian Science. (1)Condemned for preaching without ecclesiastical authorization at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 and excommunicated under Pope Lucius III by 1184, a rupture that pushed the Waldensian movement outside the institutional church for the next four centuries. (1)Established the annual Easter pilgrimage and gathering at Moria that today draws well over a million pilgrims, one of the largest annual religious assemblies in Africa. (1)In 1787, after being pulled from prayer at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church for sitting in a section reserved for white congregants, led a walkout and began organizing an independent Black congregation, dedicated in 1794 as Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. (1)The healing ministry at Nkamba from April to September 1921, which drew crowds large enough to empty mission stations, plantations and workshops, and which the Belgian administration treated as sedition. (1)FounderAllCo-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, formally organized in 1863, alongside her husband James White and Joseph Bates. (1)Founder of Christian Science and of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston in 1879. (1)Founder of what became the Kimbanguist Church, the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu. (1)GenderAllFemale (3)Male (7)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (10)How Its Legacy Is ContestedAllHistorians, including some within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, have documented substantial unattributed borrowing in her books from other religious writers of her era. The church generally reads this as compilation under inspiration; independent scholars generally read it as evidence against a wholly original prophetic voice. What she read and repeated is not seriously disputed; what it means for her authority is. (1)Institution FoundedAllBethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Mother Bethel), 1794; the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a formally organized independent denomination, 1816, becoming its first bishop. (1)Founded the first American Shaker settlement near Albany, New York, after emigrating from Manchester in 1774 with a small group of followers from the Shaking Quakers. (1)The Church of God in Christ, incorporated 1897 with Charles Price Jones, becoming its senior bishop and leading its Pentecostal branch after the 1907 to 1908 split with Jones. (1)The Waldensian movement, called the Poor of Lyon in his own lifetime and Waldensians after his name, begun around 1173 when he gave away his wealth and began preaching lay poverty and vernacular scripture reading. (1)The Zion Christian Church, the largest African Initiated Church in Southern Africa, headquartered at Moria in Limpopo Province, South Africa. (1)Legal StatusAllTried by a military court in 1921 and sentenced to death for hostility to the state. The sentence was commuted by the king of the Belgians to life imprisonment and a flogging. He served thirty years at Elisabethville. (1)Lifespan or FloruitAll1491-1547 (1)1736 to 1784 (1)1760 to 1831 (1)1821-1910 (1)1827-1915 (1)1866 to 1961 (1)1887 to 1951 (1)Lifespan or Floruit End YearAll1205 (1)1547 (1)1691 (1)1784 (1)1831 (1)1910 (1)1915 (1)1948 (1)1951 (1)1961 (1)Lifespan or Floruit Start YearAll1173 (1)1491 (1)1624 (1)1736 (1)1760 (1)1821 (1)1827 (1)1866 (1)1885 (1)1887 (1)Manner of DeathAllDied of natural causes (4)Notable PublicationAllAssertio Septem Sacramentorum, 1521, the defence of the seven sacraments against Luther published under his name (1)Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, first published 1875 and revised by her until her death (1)Steps to Christ, 1892 (1)The Great Controversy, first published 1888 and revised 1911 (1)The Journal of George Fox (published posthumously, 1694) (1)Office HeldAllDefender of the Faith, granted by Leo X in 1521 for a treatise written against Luther and retained by English monarchs since (1)King of England from 1509; Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England from 1534 (1)Origin of the NameAllLatinized as Valdes or Waldensis in medieval sources; the modern English form "Peter Waldo" is a later convention, and the movement's name, Waldensians, derives from his own name rather than the reverse. (1)Place of ActivityAllBattle Creek, Michigan, later Elmshaven in St. Helena, California, with several years establishing the church's work in Australia (1)New England, and Boston, where she established The Mother Church (1)Place of OriginAllBow, New Hampshire (1)Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England (1)Gorham, Maine (1)Greenwich, England (1)Lyon, France. (1)Manchester, England; emigrated to the colony of New York in 1774. (1)Near Memphis, Tennessee. (1)Nkamba, in the Lower Congo, where he was baptised in the Baptist Missionary Society mission. Nkamba is now the holy city of the church founded in his name. (1)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born enslaved. (1)Thabakgone, in the district of Pietersburg, present-day Polokwane, in what is now Limpopo Province, South Africa; some sources instead place his birth in the nearby Haenertsburg area. (1)Prophetic RoleAllRegarded within Seventh-day Adventism as given the spiritual gift of prophecy named in the church's own Fundamental Belief 18; her visions and writings are held to carry continuing authority subordinate to scripture. (1)Traditions Revering This FigureAllChristianity (6)BrowseCompareAnn LeeFounded By1 entryCharles Harrison MasonFounded By1 entryEllen G. WhiteFounded By1 entryEngenas LekganyaneFounded By1 entryGeorge FoxFounded By1 entryHenry VIIIFounded By1 entryMary Baker EddyFounded By1 entryPeter WaldoFounded By1 entryRichard AllenFounded By1 entrySimon KimbanguFounded By1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editiontier 1F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. 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