History of Christianity

This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics.

The Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation

• the role of Johann Gutenberg's printing press in the spread of religious dissent
• Martin Luther
• John Calvin and Calvinism
• King James Version
• Council of Trent
• Thirty Years' War
• Inquisition
• Radical Reformation and the Anabaptists
• Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites

Protestantism and the Rise of Denominationalism

:Discusses the rise of the major denominations after the Reformation, and the challenges faced by Catholicism.

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• The earliest controversies resurface in new forms
• Baptist Churches
• Presbyterian Church
• Anglican Church
• John Wesley and the Methodist movement
• Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke and American Methodism
• First Great Awakening
• Pentecostal
• Lutheran Church
• Brethren
• The Puritans
• The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers
• Nonconformists
• The English Civil War
• Congress of Religions, 1893
• Welsh Methodist revival