List of Christian movements

A Christian movement is a

First Council of Nicea which forever severed Easter from Passover, both thematically and calendrically. Christians thereafter, including all major protestant churches, have felt justified in considering themselves as having replaced the Jews, believing that the new covenant has superseding and abrogating the original one. C.f. Antinomianism, Supersessionism

British Israelism or "Anglo-Israelism": The Christian belief that many modern people of British and European heritage are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes or directly descended from the Tribe of Judah and thereby the heirs of the covenants with Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
Charismatic movement or "Neo-Pentecostalism": Pentecostal beliefs and practices spread to churches outside the Holiness tradition.
- Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Latter Rain Movement
.
Christ the Only Way movement. A programme in the Philippines to promote evangelism.
Christian ecumenism
: The promotion of unity or cooperation between distinct religious groups or denominations of the Christian religion.
Christian Family Movement: a U.S. movement of parish and small groups of families that meet to reinforce Christian values.
Christian fundamentalism: sought to assert a minimal set of traditional Christian beliefs against the influences of Modernist Christianity; became a movement of separation from the "mainline" Protestant churches.
Christian Identity: A label which is applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated groups and churches with white supremacist beliefs.
Christian naturism: A movement which believes that God never intended that people should be ashamed of their bodies.
Christian Torah-submission: A movement of Christians whose adherents pursue a lifestyle that is both fully dedicated to Jesus Christ and obedient to God's commandments which are found in the Torah
.

return of Jesus

and his reign on Earth.

Confessing Movement: a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant churches which seeks to return those churches to what its members see is greater theological orthodoxy.
Conservative Evangelicalism
: a division of evangelicalism which is characterised by reformed theology.
Convergence Movement: a move among evangelical and charismatic churches in the United States which seeks to blend charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical sources.
Creationism: There are several schools of creationist thought, but all of them adhere to the belief that human beings were divinely created over a short period of time (which distinguishes them from theistic evolutionists).
Eastern Catholicism: A movement on the part of some Eastern churches which seek to enter into visible communion with the Bishop of Rome that originated after the East–West Schism.
Ecumenical movement
: A movement that is working towards inter-church cooperation and increased Church unity
Emerging church movement
: a transdenominational movement that seeks to reshape Christian epistemology, doctrines, and practices so they will fit into a postmodern mold.
atonement.^[1]

Free Grace Movement: Originally a reaction against the inroads that Reformed soteriology made into Dispensationalism, it has since developed away from some dispensational soteriology, like its understanding of repentance
.

Focolare Movement: an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood.
Grace Movement
: A movement which originated in the 1930s and embraces the Mid-Acts position Dispensational system of Bible interpretation.
Hebrew Roots movement: Emphasizes the Jewish roots of Christianity and the understanding of Jesus and the New Testament in the light of Old Testament observances and Jewish tradition.
Home church movement - A movement which is working on church growth via house churches
Charismatic Movement
.
Hussitism: The dominant faith in what is now the Czech Republic
, 1420-1620.

The

Simple Church

movement is a worldwide shift of Christian expression in small groups rather than in formal institutionalized buildings.

Jesus movement - The Jesus movement was an Evangelical Christian movement that originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, and Central America before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks.
LGBT-welcoming church programs
.
Modernism (Catholicism)
: school of Christian thought which rose as a direct challenge to more conservative traditional Christian orthodoxy.
Mission movement - A movement working on church growth via cross-cultural missions and evangelism

Missional Movement: A modern movement of Christianity that seeks to emphasize the call of the church towards a mission type of lifestyle focused on themes like social justice and inculturation.
Neo-orthodoxy: emphasis on the transcendence of God, the reality of sin, and an existentialist encounter with the word of God.
Seicho-No-Ie
.
Oxford Movement: A nineteenth century movement to more closely align Anglicanism with its Roman Catholic heritage; part of Anglo-Catholicism, a movement that continues into the 21st century.
Paleo-Orthodoxy
: evaluating later theology in light of the writings of the early Church.
Peace and Truce of God: the first mass peace movement in history, originating in the 10th century as a result of violence against Christian institutions that took place after the fall of the Carolingian dynasty
Pentecostalism: the gifts of the Holy Spirit are a normal part of the "Full Gospel".
Prosperity Theology
: (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success) is a Christian religious doctrine that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to Christian ministries will always increase one's material wealth.
Nazi ideology
with elements of Christianity.
Postmodern Christianity: an understanding of Christianity that has been influenced by continental philosophy
.

Reform Movements
- Protestantism - Protestantism originated from certain efforts to reform the Roman Catholic Church.
- Religious orders
  - Many religious orders in the Catholic Church began as reform movements.
Restoration Movement, also known as the "Stone-Campbell movement": a group of religious reform movements that arose during the Second Great Awakening and sought to renew the whole Christian church "after the New Testament pattern", in contrast to divided Christendom, of Catholicism and Protestantism.
Restorationism (Christian primitivism): the belief that a purer form of Christianity should be restored using the early church
as a model.

Jesus Christ

.

Political

Christian anarchism: the rejection of all authority and power other than God, it sometimes even included the rejection of the organized church. Christian anarchists believe that Jesus of Nazareth was an anarchist and that his movement was reversed by strong Judaist and Roman statist influences.
Christian communism: is a form of religious communism which is based on the teachings of Jesus and the way of life of the Apostles and the first Christians.
Christian Democrats
came out of this movement.
- GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc
  .

Christian left: those who hold a strong Christian belief and share left-wing or liberal ideals.
minimal government
or no government (see Christian anarchism).
Christian right: encompasses a spectrum of conservative Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of social values they deem traditional in the United States and other western countries.
Christian socialism: those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist, broadly including Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social gospel.
Dominionism
: a movement among socially conservative Christians to gain influence or control over secular civil government through political action — seeking either a nation governed by Christians or a nation governed by a Christian understanding of biblical law.
Evangelical left: part of the Christian evangelical movement but who generally function on the left wing of that movement, either politically or theologically, or both.
Green Christianity: Christian-based opposition to climate change
and other environmental problems

political activism, particularly in areas of social justice, poverty, and human rights. It gave priority to the economically poor and oppressed of the human community. See also Black theology, Dalit theology, Feminist theology, Minjung theology & Queer theology
.

Progressive Christianity: focuses on the biblical injunctions that God's people live correctly, that they promote social justice and act to fight poverty, racism, and other forms of injustice.
Christus Rex
, and it was also the title of a conservative Catholic journal
Social Gospel movement: a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applies Christian principles to social problems, especially poverty, liquor, drugs, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war. The Social Gospel leaders overwhelmingly held a postmillennial eschatology.

Philosophical

Augustinianism
Christian asceticism: a life which is characterised by refraining from worldly pleasures and luxuries, such as wealth, private possessions, and alcohol.
Christian atheism: position in which the belief in the God of Christianity is rejected, but the moral teachings of Jesus are valued.
Christian deism: Deist philosophy which places emphasis on the moral teachings of Jesus.
Christian existentialism: a school of thought founded by the 19th-century Danish philosopher and father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard, which emphasizes subjectivity and deep reflection on purpose, the apparent absurdity of life and the cosmos, the inevitable despair of an awakened existence, and finding the authenticity of self by faith in God.
Jewish followers of Jesus (the Nazarenes
) were vegetarians.

Christian pacifism: Christian churches, groups or communities teaching that Jesus was himself a pacifist who taught and practiced total nonviolence and that his followers must do likewise.
Molinism
Neoplatonism Christian appeared in the 3rd century and influenced Christian philosophy and theology
Occamism
Postmodern Christianity: an understanding of Christianity that has been influenced by the postmodern trend in 20th-century continental philosophy, associated with literary deconstruction, postliberal or narrative theology, and the Emerging church
movement.

Scotism
Thomism
Weak theology
: a form of postmodern Christianity that emphasizes the idea of the weakness of God.
contraception
. Generally involves the complete submission of the wife to the husband; women generally don't work and children are homeschooled.
Wedding of the Weddings in Poland: considers the wedding celebration as deeply religious acting that should not be distorted by alcohol consumption ("Jesus should enter the wedding house and not be driven away by alcohol")

References

^ The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 1978.

[Oxf-1] The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 1978.

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