Restorationist Churches

The Restorationist churches recorded in this atlas, Christian bodies that hold that the faith and practice of the first followers of Jesus were lost or corrupted after the apostles and must be restored, whether by returning to the pattern of the New Testament church, as the nineteenth-century Restoration Movement did, or by claiming to be the restored true church, as Jehovah's Witnesses, La Luz del Mundo and Iglesia ni Cristo do. This group holds Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, La Luz del Mundo, Shakers. Wikipedia describes Restorationism as one of the taxonomic groupings of Christianity, alongside the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Latter Day Saint churches, which the same article also names, sit in their own group. Placing these churches together lets a reader compare one church family at a time and follow how each body describes its own governance, worship and history. Each entry keeps its own description, sources and Browse By pages.