Outline of Christianity

Christianity (from the word "Christ") is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. The Christian faith is essentially faith in Jesus as the Christ (or Messiah), the Son of God, the Savior, and God (Yahweh or the "Lord") himself.
Adherents of Christianity, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (the part of scripture common to Christianity and Judaism). Orthodox Christian theology claims that Jesus suffered, died, and was resurrected to open heaven to humans. They further maintain that Jesus ascended into heaven, and most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant immortality to his followers. He is considered the model of a virtuous life, and both the revealer and physical incarnation of God. Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the Gospel ("good news") and hence refer to the earliest written accounts of his ministry as gospels.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Christianity:
==Main article==
* Christianity
==Branches of Christianity==
Denominational families	Denominations	Denominational members
;Catholicism
*Anglicanism
*Continuing Anglicanism
*Indpt. & Old Catholicism
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;Catholic denominations
*Anglican Communion
*Continuing Anglican groups
*Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic)
*Roman Catholic Church	
;Lists of Catholics
*List of Anglicans
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*Lists of Roman Catholics
;Eastern Christianity
*Eastern Orthodoxy
*Oriental Orthodoxy
*Eastern Catholicism
*Syriac Christianity	
;Eastern denominations
*Eastern Orthodox Churches
*Armn., Copt, Ethp., Syr., Ind.
*Eastern Catholic Churches
*Assyrian Church of the East	
;Lists of Eastern Christians
*List of Eastern Orthodox
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*List of Assyrian Christians
;Protestantism
*Adventism
*Anabaptist
*Baptist
*Calvinism
*Evangelicalism
*Holiness movement
*Lutheranism
*Pentecostalism
*Presbyterianism
*Restoration Movement
*Wesleyanism	
;Protestant denominations
*Seventh-day Adventist
*Menn., Amish, Hutr., Breth.
*Baptist denominations
*Reformed denominations
*National Asso. Evangelicals
*Christian Holiness Partnership
*Lutheran denominations
*Pentecostal World Conference
*Presbyterian Churches, Aus.
*DoC, CoC, CC/CoC
*Methodism	
;Lists of Protestants
*List of Seventh-day Adventists
*List of Mennonites
*List of Baptists
*List of Puritans
*List of Evangelicals
*List of Nazarene leaders
*List of Lutheran clergy
*List of AG people
*List of Prebyts.: Au., Ir.
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*List of Methodists
;Nontrinitarian
*Latter Day Saint movement
*Oneness Pentecostalism
*Bible Student movement	
;Nontrinitarian denominations
*Latter Day Saints
*Oneness Pent. Churches
*Jehovah's Witnesses	
;Lists of Nontrinitarians
*List of Latter Day Saints
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==Christianity by Location==
*Christianity by country
:*Protestantism by country
:*Roman Catholicism by country
==History of Christianity==
* Authors of the Bible
* The Bible and history
* Bible chronology
* Coptic versions of the Bible
* Genealogy of the Bible
* History of Christian theology
* History of Christianity and homosexuality
* History of the English Bible
* List of burial places of biblical figures
* List of artifacts significant to the Bible
* Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome
* Syriac versions of the Bible
* Timeline of Christian missions
* List of Christian martyrs
* History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
* History of Oriental Orthodoxy
* History of Protestantism
* History of the Roman Catholic Church
===By century===
* Christianity in the 1st century
* Christianity in the 2nd century
* Christianity in the 3rd century
* Christianity in the 4th century
* Christianity in the 5th century
* Christianity in the 6th century
* Christianity in the 7th century
* Christianity in the 8th century
* Christianity in the 9th century
* Christianity in the 10th century
* Christianity in the 11th century
* Christianity in the 12th century
* Christianity in the 13th century
* Christianity in the 14th century
* Christianity in the 15th century
* Christianity in the 16th century
* Christianity in the 17th century
* Christianity in the 18th century
* Christianity in the 19th century
* Christianity in the 20th century
* Christianity in the 21st century
===By period===
* Lifetime of Jesus
** Jesus
** Cultural and historical background of Jesus
** Chronology of Jesus
** Ministry of Jesus
** Good News
** Crucifixion of Jesus
** Resurrection of Jesus
* Apostolic Age
** Holy Spirit
** Gospels
** Acts of the Apostles
** Twelve Apostles
*** Paul the Apostle
** Council of Jerusalem
* History of early Christianity (Ante-Nicene Church, 100 AD – 313 AD)
** Justin Martyr
** Ignatius of Antioch
** Persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire
** Church Fathers
** Irenaeus of Lyons
** Marcionism
** Development of the New Testament canon
** Tertullian
** Montanism
** Origen of Alexandria
* Christian Empire (313 AD – 590 AD)
** Constantine
** Christian monasticism
** First seven Ecumenical Councils
*** First Council of Nicaea
** Nicene Creed
** Athanasius of Alexandria
** Arian controversy
** Jerome
** Augustine of Hippo
** First Council of Constantinople
** First Council of Ephesus
** Council of Chalcedon
* Middle Ages (590 AD – 1517 AD)
** Pelagianism
** Gregory I
** Celtic
** Germanic & Scandinavian
** Investiture
** Anselm
** Abelard
** Bernard of Clairvaux
** Crusades
** Inquisition
** Scholasticism
** Dominic
** Francis
** Bonaventure
** Aquinas
** Wycliffe
** Avignon
** Papal Schism
** Jan Hus
** Conciliarism
* Protestant Reformation (1517 AD – 1648 AD)
** History of Protestantism
***Desiderius Erasmus
***Five Solas
***Eucharistic theologies contrasted
***History of Calvinist-Arminian debate
***Arminianism
***Synod of Dort
***Wars
** Lutheranism
***Martin Luther
***The Ninety-Five Theses
***Diet of Worms
***Philipp Melanchthon
***Lutheran Orthodoxy
***Sacramental union
***Book of Concord
** Reformed churches
***Zwinglianism
***Reformation in Switzerland
***John Calvin
****Calvinist
**** History of Calvinism
***Scottish Reformation
***John Knox
***TULIP
***Synod of Dort
** English Reformation
*** Timeline of the English Reformation
*** Henry VIII of England
*** Thomas Cranmer
*** Elizabethan Religious Settlement
*** Thirty-Nine Articles
*** Book of Common Prayer
*** Puritanism
*** English Civil War
*** Westminster Assembly
** Anabaptism
*** Radical Reformation
***Conrad Grebel
***Swiss Brethren
***Müntzer
***Martyrs' Synod
***Menno Simons
***John Smyth
* History of the Roman Catholic Church (esp. 1517 AD – present)
** Historical development of the doctrine of Papal Primacy
**History of the Papacy
**Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church
**Fourth Council of the Lateran
**Council of Trent
**Counter-Reformation
**Thomas More
**Pope Leo X
**Our Lady of Guadalupe
**Jesuits
**Francis Xavier
**Dissolution of the Monasteries
**European wars of religion
**Teresa of Avila
**First Vatican Council
**Second Vatican Council
**Modernism
* Reason & Revivalism (1648 AD – 1789 AD)
** English denominations
**Baptists
**Congregationalism
**Great Awakening
**Methodism
**Millerites
**Pietism
**Neo-Lutheranism
** Old Lutherans
**Restoration Movement
**History of Jehovah's Witnesses
**History of the Latter Day Saint movement
**History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Industrial Age (1789 AD – 1914 AD)
** Camp meeting
**Holiness movement
**Independent Catholic Churches
**Second Great Awakening
* Age of Ideologies (1914 AD – present)
** Azusa Street Revival
**Ecumenism
**Evangelicalism
**Jesus movement
**Mainline (Protestant)
**Pentecostalism
**Charismatic movement
**Emerging church
===By denomination===
*History of the Anglican Communion
*History of Calvinism
*History of Calvinist-Arminian debate
*History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
** History of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Ottoman Empire
** History of Eastern Orthodox Churches in the 20th century
** History of the Russian Orthodox Church
*History of Oriental Orthodoxy
*History of Protestantism
*History of the Puritans
*History of the Quakers
*History of the Roman Catholic Church
*History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
===By region===
*History of Arab Christians
*History of the Church of England
*Baptism of Poland
*Christianization of Hungary
*Germanic Christianity
*Gothic Christianity
*History of Christianity in the United States
*History of Church activities in Zambia
*History of Eastern Christianity
**History of Eastern Christianity in Asia
*Christianisation of Iceland
*Christianization of Lithuania
*Christianity among the Mongols
*Christians in the Persian Gulf
*History of Christianity in Romania
*History of Christianity in Scotland
*Conversion of Pomerania
*Christianization of Kievan Rus'
*Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate
*Christianization of Scandinavia
*History of Christianity in Ukraine
*History of Christianity in the United States
==Texts==
*Bible
::*Books of the Bible
:*Old Testament
:*Biblical apocrypha
:*New Testament
::*Gospels • Epistles
::*Bible prophecy
*Book of Mormon
==Jesus==
* Jesus
:*Baptism of Jesus
:*Christian views of Jesus
:*Historical Jesus
:*Nativity of Jesus
:*New Testament view on Jesus' life
:*Gospel harmony
:*Ministry of Jesus
:*Miracles attributed to Jesus
:*Parables of Jesus
:*Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus
==Christian people and personalities by type==
===Apostles===
:*Andrew Bartholomew James of Alphaeus James of Zebedee
:*John Judas Iscariot Jude Thaddeus Matthew
:*Peter Philip Simon the Zealot Thomas
===New Testament people===
===Church Fathers===
* Church Fathers
* List of Church Fathers
* Apostolic Fathers
* Desert Fathers
* Doctors of the Church
* List of early Christian writers
* Patristics
===Saints===
*List of early Christian saints, up to 450 AD
*List of saints, incomplete, those since 450 AD
===Martyrs===
*Christian martyrs
*List of Christian martyrs
*Foxe's Book of Martyrs
===Popes & Patriarchs===
* List of current patriarchs
* List of Alexandrian Patriarchs, early
* List of Alexandrian Popes, Coptic Orthodox
* List of Alexandrian Patriarchs, Greek Orthodox
* List of Alexandrian Patriarchs, Coptic Catholic
* List of Antiochan Patriarchs, early
* List of Antiochan Patriarchs, Greek Orthodox
* List of Antiochan Patriarchs, Melkite Greek Catholic
* List of Antiochan Patriarchs, Syriac Orthodox
* List of Aquileian bishops and patriarchs
* List of Armenian Catholicoi
* List of Babylonian Patriarchs
* List of Bulgarian Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church
* List of Catholicos of the East
* List of Ethiopian Abunas
* List of Constantinople Patriarchs, Ecumenical
* List of Constantinople Patriarchs, Armenian
* List of Maronite Patriarchs
* List of Moscow Metropolitans and Patriarchs
* List of Roman Popes, Catholic
==Titles of Christian Leaders==
*Abbess
*Abbot
*Apostle
*Archbishop
*Bishop
*Canon
*Cardinal
*Catholicos
*Chaplain
*Circuit rider
*Church Father
*Churchwarden
*Curate
*Deacon
*Deaconesses
*Dean
*Elder
*Evangelist
*Exarch
*Friar
*Minister
*Missionary
*Monk
*Pastor
*Patriarch
*Pope
*Preacher
*Presbyter
*Priest
*Primate
*Rector
*Reverend
*Sexton
*Superintendent
*Usher
*Verger
*Vestryman
*Vicar
==Theology==
*Christian theology
:*Theology of God
:*Trinity
::*God the Father
::*God the Son
::*Holy Spirit
::*Incarnation
===Unorganized articles relating to Christianity theology===
--needs organizing
*Salvation
*Baptism
*Christology
:*Miaphysitism
*Apologetics
*Mariology
*Hesychasm
*Apophaticism
*Monophysitism
*Nestorianism
*Theosis
*Theoria
*Phronema
*Philokalia
*Praxis
*Theotokos
*Hypostasis
*Ousia
*Metousiosis
*Apostles Creed
*Covenant theology
==Celebrated days==
*Liturgical year
:*Advent
:*Christmas
::*Christmastide
:*Easter Triduum
::*Good Friday
::*Holy Saturday
::*Easter
:*Passover
==Christianity and other beliefs==
*Christianity and other religions
*Christianity and astrology
*Christianity and Buddhism
*Christianity and Freemasonry
*Gnosticism and the New Testament
*Christianity and Hinduism
*Christianity and Islam
:*Protestantism and Islam
*Christianity and Judaism
:*Eastern Orthodoxy and Judaism
*Mormonism and Christianity
*Christianity and Neoplatonism
*Christianity and Paganism
==Christianity and society==
*Christianity and abortion
*Christianity and alcohol
*Christianity and antisemitism
*Biblical law in Christianity
*Christian views on cloning
*Christian views on contraception
*Christianity and divorce
*Christianity and domestic violence
*Christianity and environmentalism
*Christianity and homosexuality
*Christian views of marriage
*Christianity and multiculturalism
*Christianity and politics, Christian politics (index)
*Christian pacifism
*Christian views of sin
*Christianity and slavery
*Women in Christianity
==Criticism==
*Criticism of Christianity
==Related lists==
== See also ==
* Outline of religion
==References==
==External links==
* An overview of Christianity.
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