Post by pitbull on Aug 23, 2007 20:19:53 GMT -5
ANGLICAN
Origins
Henry VIII of England led to the Church of England existing as a separate entity when he separated with the Roman Catholic Church over the issue of divorce. He hence made the monarch of England as head of the church rather than the Pope.
Name
Anglicanism is the term used to encapsulate the doctrine, religious belief, faith, system, practice and principles of the Church of England and other Anglican churches. The term Anglican derives from a Medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 - ecclesia anglicana -meaning 'the English Church'. The noun Anglican is used to describe the people, institutions and churches as well as the liturgical traditions and theological concepts developed by the state established Church of England and the Anglican Communion, a theologically broad and often divergent affiliation of thirty-eight provinces that are in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Doctrines/Beliefs
Anglicanism differs from many Protestant churches in the following ways:
Į The use of liturgy and The Book of Common Prayer.
Į The threefold order of ordained ministers (deacons, priests, and bishops) in apostolic succession.
Į The use of wine (not grape juice) in the Eucharist.
Į The emphasis on the eucharist as the standard form of worship.
Į The requirement that only baptized persons are eligible to receive Communion.
Į The ordination of women in some dioceses.
Į Observing feasts, fasts, and the lives of the saints.
Į Prayers for the dead.
Į The diocese as the primary unit of governance and not the individual parish or denomination as a whole.
Į The practice of monasticism.
Į The practice of infant baptism
Į The use of the Apocrypha
Anglicanism varies from the Roman Catholic Churches and Orthodox Churches in the following ways:
Į Clergy are allowed to marry.
Į Ordination of women in some dioceses.
Į In some provinces the Eucharist is open to all baptized Christians .
Į The collegiate structure of the church in contrast with Roman Catholic centralization.
Į The loose structure of the Anglican Communion. Unlike the pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury has no authority outside his province but is regarded as "first among equals" among bishops in the Anglican Communion.
Subdivisions/Splinter Groups
Į Puritans
o Congregational Churches
o Presbytarian Church (USA)
o Unitarians
Į Separatists
o General Baptists
„X Pilgrims
„X Free-Will Baptists
„X Regular Baptists
o Particular Baptists
Į Episcopal Church
Į Scottish Episcopal Church
Į Methodists [Methodist Episcopal Church]
o Primitive Methodists
o Republican Methodists
o Wesleyan Reform Union
o the Independent Methodist Connexion
o Wesleyan Methodist Church
o United Methodist Church
o Free Methodist Church
o African Methodist Episcopal Church
o Salvation Army
o Church of the Nazarene
o Pentecostalism
„X Assemblies of God
„X the Church of God in Christ
„X New Testament Church
„X Church of God (Cleveland)
„X Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
„X Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ
„X the United Pentecostal Church
Origins
Henry VIII of England led to the Church of England existing as a separate entity when he separated with the Roman Catholic Church over the issue of divorce. He hence made the monarch of England as head of the church rather than the Pope.
Name
Anglicanism is the term used to encapsulate the doctrine, religious belief, faith, system, practice and principles of the Church of England and other Anglican churches. The term Anglican derives from a Medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 - ecclesia anglicana -meaning 'the English Church'. The noun Anglican is used to describe the people, institutions and churches as well as the liturgical traditions and theological concepts developed by the state established Church of England and the Anglican Communion, a theologically broad and often divergent affiliation of thirty-eight provinces that are in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Doctrines/Beliefs
Anglicanism differs from many Protestant churches in the following ways:
Į The use of liturgy and The Book of Common Prayer.
Į The threefold order of ordained ministers (deacons, priests, and bishops) in apostolic succession.
Į The use of wine (not grape juice) in the Eucharist.
Į The emphasis on the eucharist as the standard form of worship.
Į The requirement that only baptized persons are eligible to receive Communion.
Į The ordination of women in some dioceses.
Į Observing feasts, fasts, and the lives of the saints.
Į Prayers for the dead.
Į The diocese as the primary unit of governance and not the individual parish or denomination as a whole.
Į The practice of monasticism.
Į The practice of infant baptism
Į The use of the Apocrypha
Anglicanism varies from the Roman Catholic Churches and Orthodox Churches in the following ways:
Į Clergy are allowed to marry.
Į Ordination of women in some dioceses.
Į In some provinces the Eucharist is open to all baptized Christians .
Į The collegiate structure of the church in contrast with Roman Catholic centralization.
Į The loose structure of the Anglican Communion. Unlike the pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury has no authority outside his province but is regarded as "first among equals" among bishops in the Anglican Communion.
Subdivisions/Splinter Groups
Į Puritans
o Congregational Churches
o Presbytarian Church (USA)
o Unitarians
Į Separatists
o General Baptists
„X Pilgrims
„X Free-Will Baptists
„X Regular Baptists
o Particular Baptists
Į Episcopal Church
Į Scottish Episcopal Church
Į Methodists [Methodist Episcopal Church]
o Primitive Methodists
o Republican Methodists
o Wesleyan Reform Union
o the Independent Methodist Connexion
o Wesleyan Methodist Church
o United Methodist Church
o Free Methodist Church
o African Methodist Episcopal Church
o Salvation Army
o Church of the Nazarene
o Pentecostalism
„X Assemblies of God
„X the Church of God in Christ
„X New Testament Church
„X Church of God (Cleveland)
„X Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
„X Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ
„X the United Pentecostal Church