History of Holiness, Pentecostal & Charismatic Churches

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FULL SERIES:

Episode 1: Origins & Early Schisms

Episode 2: Roman Catholics & Eastern Orthodoxy

Episode 3: Anglicans, Lutherans & Reformed

Episode 4: Anabaptists & Quakers

Episode 5: Baptists & Methodists

Episode 6: Mormons, Adventists & JWs

Episode 7: Pentecostals & Charismatics

Episode 8: Miscellaneous Groups

BY READY TO HARVEST:

What is a Denomination?

Most Asked Questions about Pentecostals

CREDITS:

Chart & Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz

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[johnsecunde]

I’m just imagining Matt gradually loosing his sanity as this project has grown more and more complicated

[Bergioyn]

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland should be added to the Lutheran section of the chart. It has 3.7 million members, is the official state church of Finland and separated from the Church of Sweden over 200 years ago.

[leontrotsky]

I'm waiting for Matt to announce in the next episode that he's since found out about fifty more denominations with enormous memberships that no-one's ever heard of, so he'll need six more episodes and a chart the size of a barn wall to wrap it all up.

[cooltaylor]

Great take, on Non-denominational Christians being a denomination of their own.

[mjh]

Stop changing it and take my money already!!! 😂

Kidding. It’s amazing work and I can’t wait to get it. Also appreciate you’ve taken on feedback for it all

[thespanishinquisiton]

One note for the poster: you may want to change Rastafarianism to Rastafari. As far as I'm aware, members of that religion prefer to not have the "ism" at the end of the name.

[nevertrusasmurf]

For the poster: There should be a link from Syriac Christianities to Islam. The influence of Syriac late antique authors and themes on the Quran has been well established. For example the story of the 7 sleepers of Ephesos is in the Quran. There is way more, like very similar polemic topoi from Syriacs against Judaism, etc.

[ComradePhoenix]

I'd really like to see you cover the unitarians, the universalists, and the Unitarian Universalists. The unitarians were especially influential in early America, with several presidents and many early abolitionists being unitarian.

[CommonHawthorn]

I think it would be more accurate to say that Antoinette Brown was the first *ordained* woman minister in the U.S. Quakers recognized women ministers from the start but did not ordain them (nor did they ordain the men).

[harmony]

I think I've learned more about Christianity in this series than I did either in my 17 years as a believer reading my bible and listening to sermons or my 17 years as an atheist, listening to conversations about religions.
Thanks for making it, it's genuinely enlightening.

[josephgraf]

This has been an awesome series. Thanks for your effort and an unbiased approach.

[sarysa]

This is going to be one amazing opus when it's done.
I'm normally pretty anti-censorship but good call on Westboro. It mostly consists of two litigious families who allegedly bait retribution for their actions only to sue.

[drkspace]

This is one of the few series I immediately click on when I see it. It will be sad when it's done.

[JosephV-kgxt]

I suggest changing the colour of the Church of the East since it currently matches the same grey as the various Protestant churches without a clear denomination allegiance. Also gonna ask again for Ordinariate Catholics and the return of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church like in the earlier episodes. Great work btw!

[cswrye]

I was beyond impressed with how much you covered in this episode! Besides giving an accurate description of the origin of the Church of the Nazarene (which I used to be affiliated with), you also covered the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, "The Fundamentals, " the Fourth Great Awakening, and how to define a "denomination, " which are some of my favorite topics in regards to Christian denominations. While I was originally disappointed that the Church of the Nazarene wasn't placed with the Methodists, I agree that its current placement does make more sense. Great job on all of this!

[StrongMed]

I've really been loving this series! One idea for the poster that I personally would find helpful if I were to have this up on a wall somewhere is a separate small box defining some key terms, such as "Nicene" vs. "non-trinitarian" church, "mainline" vs. "evangelical", etc...

[Dewayne]

I can't even begin to describe how validating it was to briefly see the Two By Two church on your chart! The church doesn't teach its origins, and growing up, I felt very disconnected from the rest of Christianity. Turns out the church isn't so disconnected! I look forward to your final video and can't wait to buy the poster.

[nikaculebra]

Thanks Matt for all this incredible work. Its so so nice.

[jackyex]

That's a interesting nomeclature for the "charismatic" churches, in my country those are called neo-pentecostals and the charismatic movement is only used to refer for the movements inside pre-established churches.