How Christian Denominations Got Their Names
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History Of Christianity: www.history.com/topics/religi...
Separation Of Christianity & Judaism: www.worldhistory.org/article/...
Christian Denominations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Are There Different Types Of Catholicism?: aleteia.org/2019/07/31/are-th...
How the Catholic Church got Its Name: www.ewtn.com/catholicism/teac...
Catholic: www.etymonline.com/word/Catholic
Jesuit: www.etymonline.com/search?q=j...
Orthodox: www.etymonline.com/word/orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church: www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religi...
The Great Schism: education.nationalgeographic....
Protestant: www.etymonline.com/word/Prote...
Anglican: www.etymonline.com/word/Anglican
Origin Of Anglicanism: anglicanfocus.org.au/2019/01/...
Baptise: www.etymonline.com/word/baptize
Lutheran: www.etymonline.com/word/Lutheran
Methodist: www.christianity.com/church/d...
Evangelist: www.etymonline.com/word/evang...
Plymouth Brethren: www.plymouthbrethrenchristian...
Quaker: www.etymonline.com/word/Quaker
Jehovah’s Witnesses: www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnes...
Beliefs Of Mormons: www.catholic.com/tract/distin...
Mormon: www.etymonline.com/word/Mormon
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What would be a perfect follow-up video to this would be how the various Islamic sects got their names....you know, like Sunni, Shiite, so on and so forth. Those are really the only two I remember, and I've been told those are the two largest. I have also been told that there are dozens of others.... Should be enough for a video.
You said Catholicism has no branches then what about Maronic Catholics in Lebanon🇱🇧aren’t they considered a branch of Catholicism?
Really disappointed someone explaining names is capable of pronouncing the word 'schism' as SHIZM insted of SKIZM.
11:12 Presbesterynism is called so because they are ruled by a group of elders and do not have pastors or a single clergy.
@@dawoudalbader9337 he said the branches can get smaller
Presbyterianism is originally from Scotland and is named after presbyteries, the gatherings of church leaders who governed church matters. This was in opposition to Episcopalianism, which relied on bishops to govern the church.
This was a big issue during the English Civil war.
It's worth noting that in my native USA, the local branch of the Church of England is called the Episcopal Church.
Another popular type of Christianity here are Pentecostals, a name taken from a Biblical incident from the second chapter of the book of Acts, where several people "spoke in tongues" at a gathering that occurred on the Jewish holiday called Pentecost. In general, Pentecostals believe in simple lifestyles and the importance of speaking in tongues as a sign one is saved.
Looking at Presbyterianism and Episcopalianism as forms of church government, there is a third form that's worth mentioning: Congregationalism, where each church congregation governs itself.
Also, the word Presbyterianism comes from has its origin in the Greek language and means " elder or senior" (πρεσβύτερος)
@@aimilize3518 that‘s mentioned in the video.
Eastern Orthodoxy isn't divided into smaller denominations. The Orthodox Church of Romania and the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria are all part of the same Eastern Orthodox Church. The distinction is made based on the nationality of the people they preach to. But the teachings are the same
Then there was another split, the oriental Orthodox Church
@@GailOwens No, that happened before the Catholic schism.
The orientals split before more then 1500 years. Even before RC/EO split
@@Sendo664 Thank you so much
@@GailOwensmiaphysite split happened in 5th century
Hey Name Explain - can you explain why the name Jesus is popular in Spanish speaking areas but not in English speaking counties?
Excellent suggestion! I wonder the same thing and have a theory. I wonder what he comes up with.
That's possibly because majority of Spanish-speakers are Christians while English-speakers are more diverse in terms of faith.
Interestingly Joshua which is another way of saying Jesus is popular. Of course it is often based on the human prophet Joshua Hebrew Yeshua of the Old Testament instead of Yeshua, Jesus Christ the Lord Man and God.
@@modmaker7617 Only relatively recently. All the most common English names are also from the Bible
Pretty sure he already did that?
In Polish we have separate words for buildings of Catholich Church (Kościół), Orthodox Church (Cerkiew) and Protestant Church (Zbór).
I’m surprised that Orthodox churches get the pan Slavic word for church in a Catholic country. Zbor means something like congregation, right? That see,S pretty fitting for a Protestant building. Do you know what the origin of Kościoł is? It reminds me of Castle, I know l sounds like English w, not L, which ruins that comparison, but ł does take the place of an L in other words, like Sokoł which ends in an L in other Slavic languages.
Not really, zbór realtes to congragation, so group of people attendig the church. Building is just called kościół.
And yeah, word kościół comes from same Latin word that english castle does
@@kajetanstein8296 I guess it depends on denomination.
@@The0Stroy yeah, maybe
Cool name's
Quaker here. We are a tiny denomination but our official name is the Religious Society of Friends. We call each other friend when together. We got the name “Quaker” during the 17th century when the puritans, during the British commonwealth, persecuted Friends. As a Friend was brought before a judge for preaching, the judge said, “you damn Quakers quaking before God!” Sounded good to us! We do not have dogma but have a strong belief in peace, equality, stewardship, integrity, community, and simplicity. Although we live simple lives, obviously we do not shun technology.
Best known for the private schools, mainly in the Acela corridor, with "Friends" in their name. Chelsea Clinton and the Obama daughters went to one and the fictionalized "William Penn Academy" in The Goldbergs is based on one.
And not all of us consider ourselves to be Christian. I myself am a non-Christian Quaker.
Roman/Latin Catholic refers to the Rite (basically the way of how we do things like Mass, Baptisms, etc.) that is used by Rome and traditionally used Latin as its language, it is the largest Rite and the most common that we see today. There are other Rites too, Western Rites (like the Rite of Lyon, Rite of Antioch, etc. which use Latin but has some different rituals) and Eastern Rites (like Byzantine, Chaldean Rite, etc.) which uses other languages but mainly Greek, these are similar to the Orthodox but the difference is they acknowledge the Pope as the Supreme Pontiff.
@@frankhooper7871 that’s very interesting, would you be willing to explain to me a little what you believe?
The Catholic Church is a union of different rites that are in communion with the Pope. The largest is the Roman Rite which is about 99% of Catholics. The include the Byzantine Rite, Ethiopian Rite, etc.
My be U read the wrong book.
every other rite u stated was orthodox but used by breakaway catholic churches
@kidusehilegebrial7191 they were Orthodox that came back into union with Rome.
Roman Catholic from what I understood growing up was used to denote the difference between the main Western Catholic church (with the pope) and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches who are in full communion with the Pope
@@pokenaut7803 as noted to you before. I am just stating the view as output by canon law, specifically CCOE. According to canon law they're autonomous churches in full communion with the Pope
@@Gallalad1That comment was for another commenter. Sorry.
Eastern & Western rites would be more accurate.
@@pokenaut7803 all good man
@@LeifSonOfRogaland the term in the CCOE (the canon law governing this question) js autonomous churches
It's generally good but I have some comments.
1. The word "catholic" never implied domination of the Roman Empire. It is what it is -- it just means "universal", universal especially in the notion of the normative, the overall, and the general. The catholic church is the Church in toto. Just that. It was what in Ignatius' mind when he used it. It's just a qualifier. It just became a distinct "nickname", should I say, because of history. The Eastern Orthodox is aware of the "in toto" definition of "catholic" so they called themselves in the English language the Orthodox Catholic Church. This is also an implicit claim that beyond the boundaries, there is no church, because -- based on whoever is speaking, of course -- they are THE Church. They are the whole Church. Period. Anyone who lies outside of the Church is not in the Church and the Church does not dwell or exist in and among them, even if they claim they are.
2. Roman Catholic as a term is used by the laypeople and sometimes officially, but technically speaking, the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church. The word is an invention by Anglicans to emphasize how Roman the other side is while demonstrating that they too are Catholics -- it is the "Romans" who fell by the wayside. Anyway, the term is tremendously inaccurate as, when it is used, it usually refers to LATIN Catholics who are the largest Catholic church but not the sole one. There is the Catholic Church, and there are Catholic churches. Non-Latin Catholics are called rather imprecisely as Eastern Catholics. They worship differently from the Latins (and among themselves) but some of their leaders show up and serve in Rome for official business. Eastern Catholics have also been serving in the Roman Curia and a few even received the red hat. Historically, Eastern Catholics are from communities belonging to the other ancient denominations of Christianity (and this excludes Protestantism obviously) grafted into the Catholic Church. It's wrong to say they converted because they never really fundamentally changed, except their submission to the pope.
3. You also forgot the Church of the East. It's a very, very ancient denomination rivaling the Catholic Church in history. These Christians are mostly found in northern Iraq (w/c is their homeland) and western India. One branch of the Church of the East parted from the rest and brought themselves under papal jurisdiction.
4. I know I may not be able to suggest topics since I'm not on Patreon but please do consider featuring the Catholic churches.
I saw the same mistakes, and there is much more in Protestantism in the video, and some also in the explanation of orthodoxy. But at least was a good try, even when Id like them to do a good research
Came here to say pretty much all of this. I love being a Latin Catholic but there is so much I love about our "Eastern" churches. All 23 Rites are beautiful. We can learn so much from one another. It is wonderful the old animosities are slowly dying. God willing an Eastern Cardinal will one day sit in the Chair of Peter.
I would also add that Martin Luther did want to create his own church. He was a devout Catholic and just wanted to reform the church because he disagreed with a few things such as the selling of indulgences (Ablasshandel).
@@DonJuan911 absolutely true, martin Luther didn't created a new church, but he reformed the Churches of the north of Europe.
Saying that martin Luther created a new church is like saying that Catholics created a new church in the Gregorian reformation (where they got much difference between west and east)
Isn’t Armenian western catholic orthodoxy?
As a catholic I would argue my orthodox brothers practice the oldest from of Christianity other than not having a church hierarchy. I’m personally a fan of the reforms set in by Vatican 2, but it did make the church more modern.
Ether way I pray one day we’re United in communion again one day.
Thank you!
I'm Eastern Orthodox, and I am pleasantly surprised to hear that you think the Orthodox practice the oldest form of Christianity (naturally with a few asterisks). I'm curious to know why, if you believe Orthodoxy is the older form, you choose to remain Catholic. I have a dear Catholic friend who says, "All things being equal, it is better to be with Rome than against it," to explain why he is Catholic. I personally don't agree with that idea (naturally), but I see where he is coming from. I'd love to know how you view that question.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and may God bless you!
@@gerritknopf8698 Funny enough I went to write out a response almost word for word to my original comment.
So I'm speaking more from a stance since Vatican 2 I mean until 1050 AD we were the same church.
I personally like most of the reforms made by Vatican 2 (I was born after, but all of my grandparents weren't), I think it makes the church more open to laypeople. I also like knowing what the priest is saying. Don't get me wrong I've been to traditional Latin masses and love them, but I prefer my normal Sunday mass in English. ( I do think we should return to baring meat on every Friday however. If you cant forgo something that minor for your lord you have no hope.)
The majority of us on the Roman end want to reestablish the church in its full glory (Tho with our current pope I doubt that is achievable at the moment.) but the orthodox in the past have kinda push that idea away. This is all over what really fell down to two people with to much ego wanting more power and its separates brothers and sisters in faith. I personally would rather that while we all keep our ever so minor differences.
At the end of the day we're both catholic and I'd rather celebrate our commonalities then our disagreements. We both believe in the communion of saints as is, we both read the same bible, we both have the same roots that stretch back to when the Christ's followers founded our churches, and we believe in transubstantiation. I'm not ashamed to say you get some things right and we haven't or vice versa, but that is the beauty of the church in Rome is that we can reform and have a good system for doing so.
I will give you guys this your calendar is way more accurate then ours tho.
@Jaime Alvarez I do both of those things, but our current bishop has shut down any Latin masses in our area.
It's already happening, but you have to come out of the great harlot- the Catholic church to be in the reality of the Body of Christ!
Loved the video. But actually the Catholic Church is made out of 24 sui juris churches, being the Roman Catholic Church just the larger and most present in the west, but there's also the eastern ones such as: Ethiopiam Catholic Church, Armenian Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Syrian-malabar Catholic Church… All in commumiom with each other and the Pope in Rome, unlike the Orthodox. And the Jesuits are just one religious order as well: there are the: Franciscans, carmelites, dehonians, benedectines…
The word that you are looking for is "rite".
@@LeifSonOfRogaland Actually I don't; the same Church can use multiple rites or multiple Churches use the same rite; 14 out of the 24 Sui Juris Catholic Churches use the Byzantine Rite for example.
Came down to say something along these lines, but with the addition that Roman Catholic is an unofficial term, as technically it is the Roman Rite of the Latin Church (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Church ). Also, the Jesuit thing was an odd addendum as there are many groups like this in the church, as you pointed out, but never touched on the origin of the use of the name: that Jesuit was a disparaging term slurred at them which they owned as being how they use that moniker today as shorthand for S.J. (think the n-word & its use today amongst the community it was used to describe).
@@kjyost No: "Roman Catholic" is not "an unofficial term as technically it is the Latin Rite of the church" (that being common sense enough already) because, *as I already mentioned* "the same Church can use multiple rites or multiple Churches use the same rite"; the Roman Catholic Church uses multiple rites, not just the Latin one, but also the: ambrosian, anglican, mozarabic, gallican… Jesuit, in the context of the video, is obvious the religious order; not a pejorative term or anything else.
Also the Wikipedia article you citated to justifie that nonsense doesn't even exist.
Actually no. The Roman rite or the Latin rite Catholic Church is what it’s called
the denomination thing just made me think of how the "down number" in math is called the denominator, and fractions are just breaking a number up into smaller parts. My mind is blown, I feel like an ancient mathematician lmao
"Denomination" is also the word used to refer a single type of currency (whether in form of a coin or paper/plastic note) that are worth a specific value. For example, American currency comes in the following denominations: 100-dollar notes (colloquially called 100-dollar bills), 50-dollar notes, 20-dollar notes, 10-dollar notes, 5-dollar notes, 2-dollar notes (rarely seen), 1-dollar notes, 1-dollar coins, half-dollar (50-cent) coins (again, rarely seen), quarter-dollar (25-cent) coins (I understand that this specific denomination differs from the factional currency of many other countries who prefer to have coins worth 20/100, or 1/5, of their main unit instead of 25/100, 1/4, as the US, Canada, and other like countries do), one-dime (10-cent) coins, 5-cent coins, and, for reasons I cannot fathom, one-cent coins.
@@raymondarias5925 wow u are so right, that is fascinating that different countries do it differently, where we have things representing the number, other countries represent the fraction. At least that’s what I gathered lmao, very interesting tho this is why I enjoy linguistics and etymology
5:00 Actually - there are Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church - Known also as Eastern Catholic Churches. They are in Full Communion with Roman Catholic Church (meaning they see Pope as head and hold same doctrine) yet have their particular differences when comes to rite. So it's not that Catholic Church don't have subdivisions.
But it’s not subdivisions. It’s the same church with the same profession of faith. Just different rites are employed.
This is correct, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is seperate from the Roman Catholic Church, the only thing that unites the two is communion with the pope, the Ukrainian masses are more like lituragies of an Orthodox Church and Latin is not used at all in Service.
@@shaddy1237 they have the same profession of faith. They might have kept their liturgy and rites yet they are Catholic just not Latin rite Catholic.
Greek Catholic is not "Unitarian"
@@bajabog I think they meant autonomous but yeah it’s not
It isn't true that the Catholic Church doesn't break down into smaller denominations, as there are the branches of Roman Catholicism and Greek (Byzantine) Catholicism that is still largely present in eastern Europe and is noricably separate from the Orthodox Church, as they still are in full communion with the Pope.
They aren’t smaller denominations. They are different rites. Same profession of faith, different rites
@@chimeremnmaozioko17 All true Christian churches have the same profession of faith no matter how different may be their structure and services.
@@joycegreer9391 not entirely. Example from the nicene creed: I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. Not every mainline Protestant churches believe that baptism forgives sins, only that it’s a symbol of salvation or something like that. Well actually if you say the nicene creed you should profess the same faith but then we have the filioque, there’s also a different understanding of Christ’s nature. E.g the Oriental Orthodox are miaphysite. Christ has one nature which is both divine and Human. They are true Christian churches but they don’t profess Christ’s dyophysite nature like other apostolic churches.
Pretty good breakdown, but you got a lot mixed up a lot of info about the Mormons, such as the proper name, the origins of the name Mormon, and meaning of the term Latter Day Saints.
It’s hard to speak on any level about all of the Christian denominations without getting lots of backlash though, so I applaud your effort.
Yeah, that section was pretty bad… but the rest of it Was good
Fun fact: JW’s have gone by other names in the past, but finally adopted the name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in 1931. It was based on Isaiah 43:10 “You are my witnesses, declares Jehovah…” & with Christ being called the “Faithful Witness” at Revelation 1:5.
I will say the idea of Catholics is the original is a bit of a western view. I believe orthodoxies would argue the church was always mostly decentralized and the pope putting himself above other patriarchs and trying centralize authority is what caused the Roman patriarchy to split from the rest of the church/other patriarchs
Yes they would, but actually Jesus founded in St. Peter His Holy Catholic Apostolic Church (Matthew 16,16-19), all the Church Father's, both from the east (such as St. John Chrysostom) and the west (such as St. Augustine of Hippo) recognised Peter's (and his successors') primacy, and all the Patriarchs did as well until the Great Schism. The Orthodox Church is schimatic and the predecessor of the protetsants on splitting from the Catholic Church and ignoring the parts of God's word and the past that doesn't fit their rebel not-legit authority as Church, but obviously done in a lesser level.
@@carolusaugustussanctorum I would argue that the Eastern Roman Empire split of simply because they could not control the Pope anymore due to the Normans taking their Italian holdings.They were loyal until they lost control of the Pope.
Godbless One Holy Catholic Church 🇻🇦
@@carolusaugustussanctorum You cannot be more wrong and the truth is exactly the opposite of the one you stated. I hope anyone who reads your comment actually does his own research.
@@sihtnaelkk2187 What Christ promised to St Peter in Matthew 16,16-19 continues there, St. Augustine of Hippo having said "Rome has spoken, the matter is finished"; and St John Chrysostom, *Patriarch of Constantinople* "If the primacy of St. Peter is so unimportant a fact -if it gave him no prerogatives, no duties, no successors- why on earth is it so extraordinarily prominent in Holy Writ?".
So you being a sassy false-accuser about that is just ridiculous and hypocritical. Hope you stop turning the blind eye to the (obvious) truth of Christ so childishly and antichrist-ly.
There's a church in North America that relates to the Anglican church and that is the Episcopalian church. It is basically just the Anglican church of North America. In fact there is a slightly smaller denomination of this church, literally called: Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). [Yes the ACNA is Episcopalian, even though they don't like to admit it.] Episcopalian comes from the Latin word for "overseer", "episcopalis/episcopus". So there's more info you should've included when talking about the Anglican church. I thought this was a good video. I liked this video, keep up the good work.
Generically, the word Episcopal refers to a form of church governance in which priests serve under bishops (Gr. Έπισκοποι), who serve under a hierarchy of bishops. Bishops can ordain bishops and priests cannot ordain anyone. Each church believes the authority of the bishops was handed down by ordination (“laying on of hands”) from the original 12 Apostles (known as Apostolic Succession). The Roman Catholic Church, all the Orthodox churches, the Anglican Church (hence the name Protestant Episcopal in the US), and the original Methodists were episcopal (today’s United Methodist Church has renamed its bishops “District Superintendents,” so I’m not sure about that). However, the predominantly black Methodist churches in the US form the African Methodist Episcopal, or AME, Church.
iirc, the relationship between the episcopalian and anglican churches is where we get the term antidisestablishmentarianism.
establishment- the Anglican church
Disestablishment- seperating from the establishment after the american revolution
antidisestablishment- opposing the seperation, or eanting to still be anglican while living the new United States
antidisestablishmentarianism- the noun form of the above idea
Nearly all Presidents of the US were members of the Episcopalien Church.
Great video. I was expecting you to just summarise the names but this is a very informative video on what the core tenants of each denomination actually is
The Orthodox church is the real traditional church. The heretical Catholics split from the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople in the great schism by excommunicating the patriarch of Constantinople (where the church was based), the same goes for the patriarch who excommunicated the heretical pope.
Yeah it was quite annoying seeing him make this error in the beginning of the video about how Catholicism is the original form of Christianity when they’ve changed so much throughout these last 1000 years or so.
7:25 You just -- by back way -- explained how "Roman Catholic" became a term, because the "Orthodox Catholic" term (though used by the Orthodox churches) exists. It's two different churches that see themselves as "universal".
Both catholics and orthodox claim to be part of the same church, in the other hand both say protestants are heretics
Christianity is universal and orthodox. The Great Commission was to take the gospel to all nations. All nations is universal and the gospel is orthodox.
Protestant history very much resembles the "People's Front of Judea/Judean People's Front" scene from Monty Python
SPLITTER!!
Correction: The official name of the Mormon church is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". For some reason, people keep leaving Jesus Christ out of the name.
Probably because other denominations view Mormons less as fellow brethren in Christ and more like misguided heretics/cultists. A Greek Orthodox priest and a Presbyterian minister may have quite a few differences but they're mostly agreeing on the same scriptures and focusing on the same big ideas.
Meanwhile Mormons have a whole additional book with added characters and lore and retcons to established canon. Plus the whole prophet of the church thing leads to a pretty uncomfortable situation where from the outside it seems like Mormon loyalty may be paid more to the prophet and the church rather than to, y'know, the Christ from whom Christianity ostensibly originates.
Well he uses the common/vulgar/popular name. Even the official name of the Orthodox Church is just thrown in at the end.
@@ShaunCheah seriously, I hate it when the Jesus fandom starts gatekeeping who are and are not the "real" Jesus fans.
@@RedS0n That's the quintessential christian experieince though
1. Heresiarch promotes a different line of thought contrasting to orthodoxy
2. New sect seeks to live in peace following their own personal interpretation of the bible
3. Old priests conveine in little room
4. New sect branded heretics
5. New sect persecuted to death
But sometimes this doesn't happen exactly...really stopped happening in the modern era and technically after the protestant reformation...and that's why you have crazy shit like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses ranking in the millions today
@@RedS0n that's because Christianity by default is a Credal faith, so naturally deviation from the Crede results in forfeit of Christianity.
Calvinism is less a denomination than it is a school of thought or set of doctrines, specifically, the 5 points of Calvinism. I’ve known baptists who strongly identify as calvinists, and it has had a big impact on American evangelical Christians.
Calvinism puts a big emphasis on predestination, the belief that everything happens according to God’s plan, particularly who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. Some calvinists have interpreted a person’s wealth and success as signs of God’s favor and proof of their predestined salvation.
Everything you've said is mostly correct except the last sentence. The Prosperity Gospel has nothing to do with Calvinism, and Calvinists are disgusted by it. It's an outgrowth of the Charismatic movement and Pentecostalism.
@@TomorrowWeLive as a charismatic I hate how people constantly compare us to those heretics
Yes, there is no denomination called Calvinism.
@@crisole Who? Pentecostals?
@@joycegreer9391 No... prosperity teachers... not all Pentecostals are heretics there are Protestant Trinitarian one's you should look at the Assemblies of God denomination
Another obvious one :
Pentecostalism : named after the emphasis on day of Pentecost where disciples were able to speak different languages because of the Holy Spirit
Lead to speaking of tongues in the church
Pentecostalism falls under the Episcopal church.
The disciples spoke in known world languages. On the other hand, Pentecostals actually don't speak in tongues but in random sounds. This phenomenon that they mistake as "speaking in tongues" is called glossolalia.
@@ProximaCentauri88 while I do agree it is a bunch of random sounds the Pentecostals do call it "speaking in tongues." They say it is the word of God speaking through them in these sounds. Sounds that no one can understand, not even the person speaking it, but nonetheless that is what they are referring to.
@@ProximaCentauri88 Yeah, ironicallly they somehow overlook that the whole point of speaking in tongues in the Bible wass to spread the gospel and evangelize. If no one but God understands a Pentecostal's babblings, they've missed the point, the purpose. It was described as a gift that you convey the gospel to other peoples and spread the religion.
Acts chapter 2 describes an event that supposedly converted jews from many lands and languages who had come to Jerusalem for the jewish holiday Pentecost.
A little correction about the mormon name; Its not a combination of words in English, its a name of a person. That information must have come from a dubious source. Mormon was the man who compiled the record, and because it belonged to him, it was named after him. The Mormon nickname came about when other people saw that the members revered the 'Mormon bible'.
For those curious about the origin of the name "Jehovah", it originates from the Bible itself. At one point in the Bible, God declares His name to be a string of four Hebrew consonants, roughly equivalent to the English YHWH. No vowel sounds are given, and it's generally believed that this true name is unpronounceable, but various people over the years have attempted to approximate its pronunciation in various ways. Jehovah originates from the standard Latin approximation, as in classical Latin, the letter J (or, more precisely, the consonantal I) was pronounced like the English Y, and the letter V was pronounced like the English W.
as far as the lost vowel sounds go, another theory I've heard is that they were purposefully not recorded, as a way to avoid taking the name of God in vain when writting things down
I’m a follower of the lds (Mormon) church, I’m so glad you mentioned us! God bless you ❤
Orthodox means in the original Greek correct-praise or it can mean correct-worship. It does not mean correct-opinion. Orthodox Christians believe themselves to be the oldest and original form of Christianity, and believe the Catholics split off from them. Also the various Churches with in the Orthodox Church are not separate denominations. They are all part of the ONE Holy and Apostolic Church.
If you ever studied the Great Schism, the idea that the Catholic Church broke off from the Eastern Church is wrong. The Truth is the Eastern Roman Emperor followed the Pope in Rome as long as he had Control over him, thanks to the proximity of the Eastern Roman Providences in Southern Italy at the time. When Latin Knights conquered South Italy and the Pope announced that Charlemagne was both the successor of the Roman Emperor and protector of the Christian Religon, a rift formed between the East and West. The Pope proclaimed that the churches in Southern Italy practice the Latin Rite that caused Patriarch Michael Cerularius to ban the Latin Rite from Constantinople. The Pope sent a Cardinal to proclaim Michael's excommunication from the Church, in which Michael excommunicated the Cardinal and his company as a result.
Overall, the general view of historians is that Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire remained loyal to Rome, as long as they had control over the Pope. Once the Normans took over the protection of the Pope, it was only a matter of time before they split alway from Rome.
Evangelical having its roots in "Good News" is fascinating, since the Gospels also come from old English/Dutch for Good News (God Speil)
That's probably because the English word 'gospel' is a translation of the OG Greek term...that's hardly a coincidence
@@anemone3694 the only problem with your comment is the word "probably"
The Gospel is Good News.
How interesting, in Russian language "Gospel" is called "Evangelie", similar to how Evangelicals call themselves.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 and evangelist
Usually the reason people use “roman Catholic” is because of the other rites(rites=practices or secs)in the church.
The “Latin rite” (most call Roman Catholic) is the biggest of our church so it overshadows the other rites. But we also have the byzantine rite, Aramaic rite, and about 7 others.
These rites all have different practices in their mass (mass= Sunday church service)
But they all are in communion with the pope making them Catholic not orthodox
This video leaves that out and I think it’s important to remember them and why some people use the term Roman Catholic.
Also, in order for some Protestant churches to claim pedigree to our lord Jesus Christ, they will say that they are Catholic as well, but not “Roman Catholic “
Hope this helps.
Hey i just wanted to correct some things regarding the information on the Latter Day Saint Church as I am a member :)
Joseph Smith did not write the Book of Mormon, he translated it. The reason many people say that he wrote the book was because the copy right laws back then wouldn’t apply if you didn’t write the book. So, for him to keep the message safe from those who wanted to twist the words and sell it as the “true Book of Mormon” he had to say that he wrote it. Now the Book of Mormon reads “An account written by the hand of Mormon … Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun.”
as for the name Mormon, that is the name of one of our Prophets written about in the Book of Mormon. we didn’t come up with the name and I’ve never heard it broken down into “More Good” although that is a cool translation :)
sorry if any of this was awkwardly worded and thank you for reading this far :)
Didn't he supposedly find the book under a rock or something? (By the way, I've been to your temple in Salt Lake City. Very fancy.)
@@jasonutty52 more or less, yeah. It was buried there, and he was led there by a messenger from God
I’m a nondenominational Christian, and I learned a couple things from this video! I didn’t know there was a difference between eastern and oriental orthodoxy, and I’ve also never heard of the Plymouth brethren. 😊
I guess I need to study theology some more!
If you're interested in denominations, study church history. Theology concerns the faith.
You should study early Christian history, it's so interesting! I've just read some books about Church's history and helps you to understand the religion on a deep way.
you could just say protestant
Yeah since there is no nondenominational churches we really have to learn the history on out own lol.
There's barely a difference between Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, and they may actually be reuniting since the original controversy may have happened over a misunderstanding
4:58 On a technicality, the Catholic Church does break down into 23 other Churches, although they all do report to the Pope
They are autonomous but, not separate from the Church. So technically he is correct in the video. One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, per the Creed.
It isn’t broken down into 23 other churches. Those 23 churches employ different rites but profess the same faith.
You missed the Mar Thoma Church (they are known by other names too). Since St. Thomas went to Asia and was separated by distance from the other early Christians his followers developed into their own church - so to speak. I don't know a lot about them, but you can certainly do some research into them.
Interesting video, though the bit about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a bit inaccurate. Apart from the name of the church, Mormon was the name of one of the prophets in the Book of Mormon who compiled the books into what is today the Book of Mormon. Finally, the church uses the term "saints" to refer to members of the church.
Amen
Also Joseph Smith didn’t write the Book of Mormon, he just translated it
Those Mormon heretics are just like Muslims, they aren't Christians. They belong to a different religion.
I’m a member. Thank you for clarifying this video.
@@luigimario6722 yes he did, he was a con man that made it up
I've NEVER heard Greek orthodox being refered to as Church of greece
There's a lot to unpack here. A lot of overlapping, a lot of features. It's pretty wild. Church history is a fun subject.
Agreed. I studied it some in college at both secular and religious schools. Even now, years after I left the faith, I still find the history fascinating.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the Catholic Church refers to itself (at least in Spanish speaking countries) as “Holy Apostolic Catholic Roman Church” (“Santa Iglesia Apostólica, Católica y Romana”)
As a former Mormon, I can correct you slightly here. Mormons believe that Smith translated the Book of Mormon, he did not write it himself.
"Mormon" is the name of a person. Mormon was second to last survivor of his people, the Nephites, and the person who compiled the Golden Plates from a large collection of writings past down through the generations of the Nephite people. Mormon then passed the Plates to his son, Moroni who spent the next several decades wandering around North America eventually ending up in what would one day become the State of New York where he burred the Plates.
The book tells the history of the family of Lehi who fled Jerusalem before its fall around 300 BCE. The Family traveled over land some distance to the East, and were then directed to build a ship that they used to sail across the Indian and Pacific Oceans landing somewhere in South America.
They were not the original Native Americans as there were already people there when they arrived.
There was a split between the sons of Lehi and the two groups, one following the older brother Lamon became the Laminates and those following the younger brother Nephi become the Nephites.
From this point the Nephites and Laminates went through a series of reunions and splits that eventually end with the complete extermination of the Nephites with the final Nephite, Mormon, burring the Golden Plates in what would one day become New York State. Where Joseph Smith would be directed to find and translate.
At one time, around 30 CE Jesus, after his Crucifixion in Israel came to the Americas to teach the descendance of Lehi. Before leaving after the resurrections Jesus stated he had other sheep not of this flock. He was talking about these people.
That's what I remember at least.
The Book of Mormon is just that, the Book Of Mormon. The followers are called "Mormons" because they follow the teachings of Mormon, or at least what he supposedly wrote in his book.
It's possible that Joseph Smith chose the name Mormon for it's meaning, but I have always thought Mormon referred to the person.
It's a cool story even if it's pure fiction. There are even several writes (books) that only say, more or less, "They gave me this to hold onto but I'm not worthy to write in it so I'll just pass it along."
That was a cool touch I think.
Name Explain videos are always full of corrections posted by others in the comments, but I keep coming back to them in spite of how unreliable they are, because the subjects picked are always so interesting
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On the sign at my local Catholic Church (the one I attend) says “Roman Catholic” on it
He's talking about documents that speak for the Church as an entire.
Though he doesn't really mention it, Roman Catholicism denotes the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Which has two forms of Liturgy, the Novus Ordo and the Trinitine Mass.
So your church is stating it practices the Novus Ordo or Trinitine forms of the Mass.
@@pokenaut7803 Thank you very much for the information. Never knew it had such a detailed reasoning for it.
It’s kind of like Mormons calling themselves Mormon. Some Catholics have gotten used to the term and refer to themselves as Roman Catholic, but the official term is just the Catholic Church
@@pokenaut7803 Roman is not a rite. "Latin" is name of the rite.
The Church uses "Roman" in official documents to distinguish from Antiochian, Alexandrian, Armenian and Ethiopian Catholics. Only in prayers the word "Roman is skipped".
95% of Catholics are Roman Catholics. Rite of the 98% of the Roman Catholic Church is the Latin Rite.
@@kefirmroku4494 You are correct that the official name for all the liturgical rites of the Roman Church are called the Latin Rite. The most popular liturgical rite is the Roman Rite with two other localized liturgical rites contained within the Latin Rite.
So 100% of the Roman Church practices the Latin Rite. 98% practice the Roman Rite. The Latin Rite is an umbrella term.
Finally to clarify, the Church uses the word “Roman” to distinguish from the other Eastern Catholic Churches that fall under it. So when dictating for the entire Church, it will not use the term, as stated in the video.
Great video! just thought i’d mention that the schism in the great schism is pronounced like ‘skism’
Super interesting!
The term “Roman” Catholic Church is used to distinguish the Catholic Church from other variations of Catholicism that are in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Some examples include: Syrian Catholic Church, Coptic Catholic Church, Eritrean Catholic Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church, all of the various Greek Catholic Churches, etc.
most of these are breakaway churches from the orthodox church they mimick all of our traditions and paintings
I think there is serious concern with this video:
1. Orthodoxy is not divided by denomination. Autocephalous churches are NOT denominations. It is like A CHURCH that divided into smaller provinces with significant authority for the sake of easier governance. While I can understand that some definitions of denomination can also applies to these autocephalous, local churches, this video confunds definition of denomination applied to Orthodoxy with Protestantism as one and the same (while at the same time ignoring 23 other sui iuris churches within Catholic one)
2. Orthodoxy never formed in 11th century. East West Schism is centuries long process from 9th to 15th century, or even 18th. And no, Orthodoxy never originated from Catholicism. It is a lie that the world has been taught by Catholics for centuries. Christians of the East never recieve gospel from Papal missionaries, never answer to Pope's authority in any practice and never had any form of submission to it. Ability of Patriarch Michael Cerularius to excommunicate the Pope was very demonstration of this fact.
That's what I thought. If anything it was the other way round: Catholicism, as we know it today, was a break away from the Orthodox church.
Prior to the Schism, the Church was overseen by a group of peer Bishops with each being co-equal in authority and each overseeing different provinces. But the Bishop in Rome wanted supremacy over the others and this is what caused the Schism with the Roman Bishop breaking away to form the papacy, thus the Catholic Church, aka "Roman Catholic" was born with "East Orthodoxy" or just '"Orthodox" now being used to describe the original Church.
The use of the word 'catholic' before this time was as an adjective(?) and not an organisation/institution or even a belief system.
That's my understanding in very broad strokes.
No, it's not "a lie that has been taught by Catholicis for centuries" you saying that so ignorantly that is a shameful lie. And here's why: "Jesus founded in St. Peter His Holy Catholic Apostolic Church (Matthew 16,16-19), all the Church Father's, both from the east (such as St. John Chrysostom) and the west (such as St. Augustine of Hippo) recognised Peter's (and his successors') primacy, and all the Patriarchs did as well until the Great Schism. The Orthodox Church is schimatic and the predecessor of the protetsants on splitting from the Catholic Church and ignoring the parts of God's word and the past that doesn't fit their rebel not-legit authority as Church, but obviously done in a lesser level."
"If the primacy of St. Peter is so unimportant a fact -if it gave him no prerogatives, no duties, no successors- why on earth is it so extraordinarily prominent in Holy Writ?" - St. John Chrysostom, eastern Church Father and *Patriarch of Constantinople*
Thanks ! This video came out during the same time that the Pope went at Quebec City !
Interesting. Watching this, the name of certain denominations makes more sense. I could also talk about televangelism and of course, a certain sub-denomination of that founded in Hungary from American example, called "The Faith Church", which is an example of the founder(s) being desperate to separate themselves from religion.
Joseph Smith Jun did not write the Book of Mormon. If anything, he dictated it and Oliver Crowdery wrote was stated. Very cool yet complicated stuff...
There are also various rites in the Catholic Church such as the Byzantine, Maronite, and Syro-Malabar rites.
1.Catholicism branched off from Nicene Christianity so it’s not the original.
2. Oriental Orthodoxy is often called Miaphysitism and there is a 5th “ main” branch called Maronitism which is followed by Middle Easterners such as Arab Christians.
3. Whilst Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons claim to be true versions of Christianity, they are generally nota considered so due to their views being so radically different.
It regards to point 3, Catholics would not consider orthodox to be catholic or vise versa, and many Protestants don’t consider either group to be true Christians.
There is really no arbiter of what is Christian and what isn’t. And “generally not considered” Christian is as vague a metric as you can get. Most neutral parties, such as atheists and non-Christians like Buddhists or Hindus would consider those groups as being Christian because they believe in the Bible and worship Jesus Christ.
Lastly, as a Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) myself, I’m curious as to what particular beliefs of ours you think disqualify is from being Christian.
@@KnuttyEntertainment There is a lot, but for most of history, rejection of the trinity was a big contender for not being considered christian. If you don't believe in the trinity your baptism is then invalid.
@@briandiehl9257 The trinity wasn’t a thing until centuries after Christ. It was formulated by uninspired men trying to reconcile perceived inconsistencies in the Bible. I think the Godhead of Mormonism is a much more logical and consistent interpretation of the scriptures.
@@KnuttyEntertainment The trinity is taught in scriptures. But I would dare you to find anyone teaching the Mormons view of God outside of Mormonism. But yeah if you don't beleive in the trinity you generally aren't considered christian
@@briandiehl9257 so if someone believes that christ is the divine son of God, the redeemer, and died for the sins of mankind, and believes that both the old and new testaments record the word of god, but doesn't accept the Nicene Creed, they wouldn't be a Christian?
The catholic rnd the orthodox churches split...one didn't come from another they evolved simultaniously and were alse excommunicated simultaniously by each other(however the closest to the original practise are the two orthodox churches since the oldest christian nations still practise it instead of the other options)
I should also mention that Mormonn
Was a name of the man who abridged the ancient record which would be translated into english as "The Book of Mormon". N we are called Mormons as really, a slur from the people at the time.
The Orthodox jurisdictions aren’t denominations, just different jurisdictions with their own respective bishops, all in communion with each other.
Another thing I’ve noticed is you said the Orthodox Church was lead by the Patriarch of Constantinople, then said we don’t have a pope.
We do not have one single man as the head of our church, but each jurisdiction has their own patriarch.
Happy Forgiveness Sunday, 2023!
As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I ardently disagree with nearly everything stated in the section on Catholicism, and a great deal of what was said about Eastern Orthodoxy. I am worried that our kind host, Name Explain, may need to spend more time researching these matters (especially where it concerns Catholicism and Orthodoxy), as some information is not only biased in the Catholic direction, but sometimes overtly untrue (I am thinking specifically about the coverage of the Great Schism). I would encourage everyone who wants to know more about these topics to please do further research, seeking out sources that are biased in every possible direction. I don't think it is possible to cover these matters in a truly unbiased way, and I absolutely acknowledge that I am a highly biased in how I approach these topics. I think this video is a good starting point for identifying topics to dig into more, but I would hope is not the end of anyone's research. That said, it is illuminating to hear other perspectives and opinions on these matters and get insight into what outsiders to the Catholic and/or Orthodox world believe about them.
All that being said, I am glad I watched this video and spent some time in the comment section. May God bless you all.
Presbyterian churches derive their name from the presbyterian form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
- Wikipedia
Martin Luther considered himself a (Roman) Catholic, not a "Protestant". He considered himself to be a reformer helping the Church find its roots again after going astray, e.g. with the sale of indulgences.
He was a monk. True that he wanted reforms to the church, not break away from it. The break was forced by Rome.
The Lutheran church was named after him some time after he had died, I believe
@@michaelcutler5538 My understanding is that the other reformers called the church Lutheran as a derogatory term. Martin Luther considered himself a catholic but wanted to call his teachings Evangelical as he thought he was sharing good news that the scripture saves and not the indulgences.
Hi. Can you do one for Hinduism also?
Lots of words would be in sanskrit instead of Greek or latin.
1. Vedic Hinduism: more focused on rituals, sacrifices in fire, chanting of hymns etc
2. Upanishads or Vedantas : more focused on questioning the traditions, philosophical thinkings, rights and wrongs, discussion etc
3. Puranas: legends about the gods and ancient world and how the gods interacted with each other. And humanity, rights and wrongs as part of a story rather than fixed sentences or philosophy.
4. Formation of sects in Hinduism, like shaivism and Vaishnavism
5. Formation of new religions and religious movements: Buddhism, Jainism, lingayatism, bhakti movement, etc
6. Non-vedic hindu traditions in parts of india, like animal sacrifices, spirit worship, snake worship, etc
7. Influence of abrahamic religions. And the changes made in the core of Hinduism by them.
8. Current Hindi society, and how the various groups in different part of India live. And the vast difference in traditions.
Like, cow slaughter being illegal in many states. And some states casually eating beef.
Vegetarianism and it's prevalence in north india. And prevalence of non-vegetarians in south and east.
etc
Definitely. Hinduism is probably the major religion people know the least about outside of its country of origin, I guess cos they don't proselytize, but it's definitely very interesting
I think covering other Dharmic religions like Buddhism and Jainism, my personal faith, as well as covering astika vs nastika
very good video
In German the gospels are named "Evanglien" (pl.) / "Evangelium" (sing.)
The Catholic Church broke away from the Orthodox Church.
"The Catholic Church broke away from the Orthodox Church." - the Orthodox Church.
"The Orthodox Church broke away from the Catholic Church" - the Catholic Church
@@crazydinosaur8945 They excommunicated each other. So yes, that how both see each other.
The early church broke themselves into eastern(Orthodox) and western (Catholic) church.
You could do a whole other video about the names of early christian branches, like ante-nicene period Christianity; i.e. Pauline Christianity, Unitarianism, Arianism, Gnostic Christianity, Marcionism, Docetism, Sabellianism, etc.
6:50 saying that the different Orthodox Churches are different denomination is like saying that each protestant perish or catholic diocese is it's own denomination.
A lot of mistakes in this video for sure
Good video. Just a few notes for your further information. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. We prefer the whole name, but if shortened, we prefer the church of Jesus Christ as we consider it important that this is not our church but His. The name Mormon has nothing to do with the phrase "more good" specifically. It's the name of the ancient prophet we believe compiled the Book of Mormon, which was then translated by Joseph Smith. As i said, great video. I enjoyed it! If you do something like this again, I'd be happy to be a resource for information on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints.
Actually, there are several denominations within the Catholic Church depending on which rite (religious rules) is used. Latin Rite = Roman Catholic, Byzantine Rite = Byzantine Catholic. There are also Syriac Catholics aka Marionites who follow neither the Byzantine nor the Latin rites but are still Catholic and follow a faith with the Pope as their head.
I love the video, but there are a couple of things to be mentioned. 1- Although denomination does mean something like "different types of", when it comes to the main 3 "denominations", we Christians like to call them "branches" of Christianity, due to the massive differences in structure, theology, ways of worship, etc. The word denomination is often used to distinguish the smaller branches within the branches, especially in Protestantism. 2- The word Catholic was in fact introduced by St. Ignatius of Antioch, and that word means "Universal", it wasn't named this for the reason you mentioned. The word Catholic was used to distinguish Christian orthodoxy (what the Apostles taught) and the new heresies that were popping out (like the Gnostics). 3- The word "Roman" in Roman Catholicism, comes from the fact that the Catholic Church has +20 rites all over the world. Each one with their own culture, (small T) traditions, liturgical practices, etc. The Roman Catholic Church is just the Latin rite of the Catholic Church. That's why the Church doesn't call itself Roman Catholic (Pd: The rites aren't denominations because they are all in communion with the Pope, they hold the same Apostolic Tradition, and the same teachings, making them Universal or Catholic)
thank you
Excuse me, I was wondering...
_Is loving Jesus legal yet? 💕_
Nope, because the sun is a deadly laser. Come back later.
basically:
Protestantism:
- no one can have fun
Catholicism
- polytheism
Orthodoxy
- priests that look like they practice magic in their spare time
Catholics aren't polytheists mate.
@@Player-re9mo they pray to different saints for different things
@@Teag_Brohman15 that doesn't make them polytheists. Polytheists believe in and worship multiple gods. Catholics worship only one.
@@Player-re9mo well I had to make it easier for non-catholics to understand
also the comment would've been taken down if I instead put "priests who touch children"
@@Teag_Brohman15 why would it be taken down? I see Catholic priests being accused of being pedos all over the internet since forever 🙄. I hope they put harsher punishments on those bastards.
i clicked on this video thinking the thumbnail was a splatfest
This answers a question i spent countless hours to understand on youtube as a non christian.
Don't really on this video, it's very inaccurate
If you read the Jehovah Witness's website, they explain Jehovah is just the accepted good enough translation of God's name into English. The name came about during the reformation by unknowingly merging the vowel markings for Adonai, into the Tetragrammaton.
And from deriving the English pronunciation from the German spelling.
@@peccantis what makes you say the spelling came from german? The spellings "jehova" and "jehovah" are common to many diverse european languages
Even the Catholic church doesn't deny that Jehovah, as rendered in English IS the Divine name of God Almighty. It's even inscribed in the interior of the Basillica of St Peter in the Vatican. They just don't like people using it or knowing it bcos it separates God almighty from the Son, Jesus, which contradicts the non-biblical teaching of the Trinity doctrine
'Presbyter' actually derives from the Greek 'πρεσβύτερος' (presviteros) meaning 'elder'.
Common mistake. Catholic doesn’t mean ‘Universal’ in this sense - but rather that [every early local congregation of the Church] contained within it the ‘fullness and universality of the Orthodox Faith’.
It refers to the fullness, completeness, universality of it’s doctrine within every local church - it does not refer to it’s geographical universality.
Every true Christian church is both catholic(universal) and orthodox(right belief).
As someone who has studied the great schism in detail, Orthodox is older, the Pope was originally one of three Patriarchs (later expanded to five) but over time the Pope moved further towards independence from the Patriarchy which then became known as Eastern Orthodoxy after the Pope excommunicated the lead Patriarch
Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints here! I thought you did a good job summarizing what makes us different, but some things I did notice:
-we use the term saint to refer to anyone who follows the faith, not just specific people within the church
-Joseph Smitg didn't write the Book of Mormon, he translated it. In fact, it was wrotten by a man named Mormon, which is why its named after him. Mormon, in turn, was named after a lake, which got its name from the area it was in. The scriptures don't say what the word "mormon" means specifically, but it does say something along the lines of "...being called the land of mormon, because it was inhabited by many wild beasts". The lake (again, it doesn't say lake specifically it just calls it "the waters if mormon ") was the site of a large number of baptisms, so it would have been a notable place in the time period that Mormon was born, instead of signifying anything to do with animals it was probably associated with the conversions that happened that day.
- The use of the name Mormon for the Church and its members is an exonyn that started as a slur and an insult, but was eventually used by the members of the church to describe themselves. In recebt years, we've started moving away from that name and towards our official name, as we believe that its the name God gave us. The Church has never officially refered to itself as "The Mormon Church", although members of the Church used this term colloquially. That being said, exploring the origins of the term "mormon" is nore interesting, as the official name "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" is pretty straightforward and self explanitary.
Good job on covering some controversial topics respectfully!! I can't imagine the research for this video being super easy either :)
Orthodox and and ran catholic are one, when Roman Catholic was divided the other tone became the Orthodox church who used 81 books while roman used 66 books .
But thank you for finally referring to us as Christians we've been trying so hard to be recognized as Christians
Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy are as distinct as Catholicism and Protestantism. And based on our longer and more ancient history (The pope of Alexandria was called pope by the Bishop of Rome before He himself used the title) the Oriental Orthodox represents early patristic Catholicism far better than Rome does.
It’s kind of distracting that the downward inflection in your voice at the end of every sentence sounds like the brown note… outside of that great video 👍🏼
Can u do a video on non-denominational Christian versus the Catholic faith !
The dox part in orthodox comes from greek Doxa/Doxasia which it means religious belief. So orthodox means the right religion
I’m sure you’ll get multiple comments on this, but I feel like I need to make a comment on what you call “The Church of Latter-day Saints,”. The term Latter-day Saints refers to the members of the church, the same way certain epistles in the Bible address themselves to the Saints in a place e.g. Rome, Corinth, Achaia, Ephesus, etc. meaning just the Christians in that place, so too we consider ourselves to be Saints distinguishing ourselves from other Saints by the term Latter-day. But the full name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when we shorten it we call it The Church of Jesus Christ. We consider it to be more His church than ours, we believe that He directs its leaders and its members by revelation.
As for the nickname Mormons almost certainly given to us by those of other faiths, it does not come from words meaning more good, while we do hope we will be able to increase the good in the world, the name comes from The Book of Mormon and the book gets its name from the man Mormon, in the book Mormon is a prophet who lived somewhere in the Americas around 400 AD/CE, he took the records that had been kept by his people for about the last thousand years and compiled and abridged them with some notes of his own and some follow up by his son this is what we now call The Book of Mormon.
Very informative...Dr David joseph
Where did you get the etymology for Mormon from? Because that is completely wrong.
Mormon comes from the name of the guy, the prophet, who compiled and hid the golden plates that Joseph Smith was said to have translated.
As you showed in the Wikipage Catholicism is made up of 24 Churches (1 Latin/Roman and 23 Eastern Catholics). East Catholics are close in practice and belief to Easter and Oriental Orthodox Churches. Some Eastern Catholics are Greek Melkite, Coptic Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Maronite, Syro-Malabar.
Mentioning Mormons and Jehova’s Witnesses but not Copts is quite a stretch... 🤨
Curious, do Copts view themselves as non-protestant-derived, non-catholic-derived? If memory serves me right they were a branch of Christianity that somehow didn't get caught up with the early unification of Christianity. What do I have wrong?
Copts are Oriental Orthodox
Early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes: “As regards ‘Catholic,’ its original meaning was ‘universal’ or ‘general.’ . . . in the latter half of the second century at latest, we find it conveying the suggestion that the Catholic is the true Church as distinct from heretical congregations (cf., e.g., Muratorian Canon). . . . What these early Fathers were envisaging was almost always the empirical, visible society; they had little or no inkling of the distinction which was later to become important between a visible and an invisible Church” (Early Christian Doctrines, 190-1).
4:52 a large Catholic Church in Geneva, Switzerland, has "Église Catholique Romaine" inscribed on the front, but maybe it's because it was built when the Calvinists were still very powerful and they didn't want the catholics to have a pure monopoly on the name? As I know the Calvinists of the 1800s were relatively close to the "Old Catholics" (Catholics who don't recognise the Pope)
Your explanation of the Great Schism is the Catholic-biased version of the story. Historically Christianity didn't have a "head of faith", it was lead by a group of Bishops of which the Bishop of Rome was one of them. After a while the practices of the western Christians and Eastern Christians started to differ on some points, normally this would be resolved by the Bishops at a meeting in Constantinople but the Bishop of Rome wanted more respect and power on the basis of "I'm in Rome and Rome is more important so I should be more important!" and he started demanding people call him Pontifex Maximus (a title previously held by the Emperor of Rome denoting his status as head of the Roman religion). After a few more generations the Great Schism happened, that is to say the other Bishops refused to concede to the Bishop of Rome's demands and he said "Screw this, I'm going home... and by the way Bishop of Constantinople I excommunicate you for not agreeing with me!"
Naturally this is a massive oversimplification of a supremely complex issue but this is how I interpret all the information on the subject from sources on both sides of the Schism.
100% In summary the Church spilt East and West. Not one (orthodox) moved away from an original Catholic one.
Massively glossed over the eastern denominations like Nestorian, Coptic, Miaphysite, etc.
Definitely a huge missed opportunity there
Are you aware the Church of the East considers it disrespectful to refer them as Nestorian? Indeed, even Pope John XXIII recognised that Nestorius was misunderstood and never held the teaching which was wrongly imputed to him, yet alone the Church of the East whose doctrine he merely attempted to express in Greek.
I'm sure you have had others point this out, but the name Mormon is actually just a reference to a person, Mormon, who originally wrote the Book of Mormon, an ancient person living in the americas who compiled the records of his people, and Joseph Smith just translated that compilation. At least that is the claim, even if you don't believe it specifically. I don't think it has the roots you mentioned at all - as generally flattering as they are 😅
Another point to consider is the difference between 'Protestant' and 'Reformationist', and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (and their many offshoots generally) claim to instead be 'Restorationist', the main concept there being that there was a falling away from the true doctrine of Christ, and rather than Protesting or trying to reform the church as it exists, Latter-day Saints believe that Joseph Smith as a Prophet was directed by God to restore the church anew in the modern (or Latter) days, and much as the members of Christ's Church in the Bible are often referred to as 'saints' (not specifically reserved for miraculous individuals like is used commonly by the Catholic Church), members now are referred to the same way, but just for a bit of distinction add the clarification of 'Later-day' to 'saints'.
12:50 - Bit odd putting the Jehovah's Witnesses name on the Cross, seeing as they don't use the Cross symbol in any manner, mainly bcos Jesus was hung on a stake, not a cross.
The Witness part comes from the Bible and actually refers to them being representatives or messengers of Jehovah(Yaweh being the Divine name of God in the Bible), delivering "the Good News"
Isaiah 43vs10 - Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. (American Standard Version)
This is interesting.
However, the Catholic church does have divisions. The Roman Catholic, or Latin Rite, is the main one, and considered driectly controlled by the Pope. The Eastern Catholic churches, which in most cases broke away from either Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox churches (or the extinct Church of the East). While they have many things in common with the Latin Rite, and recognize the Pope as supreme ruler, they have individual heads, or patriarchs (although the heads of four of them are called "Major Archbishops"). Also, some of them do allow for priests to be married (unlike the Latin Rite) Examples of Eastern Catholic churches include the Maronites of Lebanon, the Ukrainian Catholic church of, well, Ukraine, and the Syro-Malankara Church based in Trivandrum, India.
Another interesting thing, the Anglican church originally considered the monarch of England to be its head. One of the branches, Episcopalianism, was created in the USA to reconcile those who considered themselves Anglicans but who hated the UK, after a little thing called the War of Independence happened.
Another term sometimes used in Protestantism is MainLINE rather than MainSTREAM, when talking about Protestantism in the USA. It effectively means mainstream, but why the difference? Because a council of those churches formed, based in Philadelphia, around the Main Line, the main railroad line originally owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad that ran between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (today between Philadephia and Harrisburg it's owned by Amtrak, and also electrified, beyond it's owned by Norfolk Southern and not electrified) The term Mainline also migrated to Canada, but elsewhere it's not used. Sometimes Oldline is used instead)
There are different rites, but they are all united in ways that the different types of Protestantism aren't, so I can understand why he didn't include them in this video. He didn't want people thinking the rites were separate organizations with no connection to one another.
The catholics gave the eastern rite churches a choice recagnize the pope and you can stay... or else
The Oriental Orthodox split is much older than the EO RC split. All the way back to Chalcedon
When you ask christians in switzerland their denomination theyll answer either catholic or reformed/evangelical. Are reformed and evangelical the same ?
The term Protestant did not originate because the Protestants were protesting against the Catholic Church. In 1526, a meeting of the Reichstag (in practice, a form of German imperial parliament) issued the Recess of 27 August, stating that each individual government within the Holy Roman Empire could decide which religion they wished to follow. It would have been a triumph of religious freedom, had it lasted. However, a new Reichstag which met in 1529 was not so amenable to the Lutherans, and the Emperor canceled the Recess. In response, the followers of the new church issued the Protest, which protested against the cancellation on April 19th. Thus Protestants were protesting against the emperor's new ruling against their religious freedom.
Disappointed that you didn't talk about the different oriental orthodox churches 😥 it's really fascinating stuff
I found most of the video informative, but a plurality of your information on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is very inaccurate.
The name "Roman Catholic Church" can also refer to the Latin Church.
Basically, the Catholic (universal) Church (big letter) consists of over 20 autonomous churches (small letter), the largest of which is the latin church. Alsmost every Catholic is in the Latin Church, the largest of the others - the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has 0.3% of the membership of the latin church. All the churches are united in communion, dogma, doctrine and acknowledgement of papal primacy, however they have different hierarchies, spiritualities and traditions.
Where did these Churches come from? They originate from different traditions than the Latin Church, some of them had previously cut ties with Rome and later have returned.