World Religions & Cultures
Christianity:

Church Affiliations Flow Chart

-- to show how they grew theologically
Dr. Marguerite Connor

LUTHERANS

Lutheranism 1517
-- Martin Luther

Scandinavian Lutherans
-- Christian II

ANABAPTISTS
Anabaptism 1521

Mennonites c. 1536
-- Menno Simons

Quakers 1647
-- George Fox

Amish c. 1690
-- Jacob Ammon

Shakers 1776
-- Ann Lee



ANGLICANS

Anglicanism 1534
-- Henry VIII/Bishop Cranmer

Methodism 1739
-- John Wesley
Protestant Episcopal Church 1785

Anglo-Catholicism 1833

 

REFORMED/
CALVINISTS

Zwinglianism 1523
-- Huldreich Zwingli

Calvinism 1536
-- John Calvin

German Reformed Church c. 1540s

Hungarian Reformed Church c. 1550s

French Calvinists (Huguenots)

Scottish Presbyterians c. 1560
-- John Knox
Congregationalism (Puritans)

Dutch Reformed Church c. 1570s

 

OTHERS

English Baptists c. 1606
-- John Smyth

Moravians c. 1722
-- Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf

Swedenborgians 1789
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

United Brethren in Christ 1800
-- Philip Otterbein

Evangelical Association 1807
-- Jacob Albright

Unitarianism USA 1819
-- William Channing

Christian Churches 1827
-- Barton V. Stone

Disciples of Christ 1831
-- Thomas Campbell

Seventh Day Adventists 1863

Salvation Army 1865
-- William Booth

Christian Science 1879
-- Mary Baker Eddy