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Episcopals and Lutherans
However, I noticed that some distant cousins in the 60's got married in a Buddhist temple.
Now, we're all very ecumenical. Catholic, atheist, Presbyterian, and whatever.
Judaism and Buddhism were in existence long before Christ was born, and while they both professed to believe in a Godhead, they were not Catholics or Christians. The Catholic Church was the dominate religion in Europe despite a split from the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054.
As I understand it the Protestant religions emerged after the Reformation which began in the 16th Century when the church in England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church during the English Reformation. The Scottish Reformation, The Reformation in the Netherlands and the Protestant Reformation followed very closely.
In scheme of history it looks as if the theologic events were: Catholicism and its split, followed several centuries by the various Reformation in Europe.
The various "isms" in America is a mixed bag. I found the following in a search. The first Reformed Dutch Church was built in America in 1609 as was the first Roman Catholic Church. It was followed by the Anglican/Episcopal in 1632, the Puritan/Unitarian in 1681, the Quaker meetinghouse in 1682, and the Lutheran/Episcopal in 1698. The first Baptist church was built in 1700, the first Presbyterian church in 1740, and the first African Methodist Episcopal church in 1794.
In 1870 the Native American Church formed on Reservations in southwestern Indian Territory, present day Oklahoma. Native Anarchism in America began with the antinomian controversy in Puritan New England. Deism appeared in America circa 1750.
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The Cherokee side of our family turned Christian several generations ago. They chose the Assembly of God, Pentecostal religion and even today that's what most of them are. On my father's side it was Southern Baptist, also for many generations.
Christianism is a heressy of Judaism, Islamism too.
Protestantism is a heressy of Catholicism.
Anglicans are not Protestants, but more like "English Catholics". They are English Catholics that do not abide the Pope of Rome.
Well..The "official" existence of Protestants began when an Augustin monk called Luther nailed his "thesis against the selling of indulgences" at the door of the Witterberg Cathedral in 1517. Such mouvement was used as a casus belli against the Hapsburg family.
There were many other Catholic heressies very similar to some protestant mouvements since the beginning of Catholicism (not Chisms), but they were dealt swiftly (Cathars, Bogomils, Priscilians, Arrians, etc)..other heressies were adopted and sincretized.
Powwow, is kind of a mix of Christian beliefs and older European magical practices. We had an old family Bible from the 1800's written in both English and German. My grandmother had notes written in the margins and handwritten workings on scraps of paper tucked here and there...she also had a homemade recipe for Bathtub Gin in there too
Sadly, when I moved to Las Vegas to care for my mom, I left it behind. She was supposed to send it to me...but her apt. complex had a fire and even though they had time to get important belongings out, she left it behind, in lieu of her Star Trek collection
It was completely ruined due to water damage.
Those notes IMO were far too valuable due to their historical, religious, and anthropological insight. And I still want to bawl when I think of it.
It really is sad that they were lost. It sound so interesting and significant.
Methodist for upwards of five maternal generations, Episcopal (and a few more Methodists, including a g-grandfather who was a minister) on my father's side, Presbyterian and Lutheran back a few generations (maternal), plus a few long-ago Maryland Quakers who (briefly) converted from the Church of England (paternal) and some distant New York-New Jersey Quakers who became C of E. sometime before moving to Virginia (again, paternal). Plus two paternal lines of French Huguenots (Calvinist Protestants), both of which came to Manakintown in Virginia in 1700 to avoid religious persecution, but it was the 19th century before they intermarried. By that time, they were Episcopalian.
A little Methodist history: John Wesley, who was ordained by the Church of England, is considered the founder of Methodism. He never left the C. of E., however. His aim was to make church teaching more accessible and to lessen focus on elaborate church services and ritual in favor of preaching, teaching and outreach.
Methodism got a big boost in Colonial and Early America (especially in the South) by the good works and lengthy travels of Bishop Francis Asbury, hence lots of early Southern families have Methodist backgrounds. My maternal Scots-Irish Presbyterian ancestors seem to have become Methodists around this time - my English-German ancestors appear to have been Methodists several decades longer (though the Germans were probably Lutherans initially).
The American church was first known at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and while the litany was simplified, the wording was identical to that used in the C of E (or in the US, the Episcopal Church). Some of the much-loved 1928 Episcopal Prayer Book wording survives in contemporary United Methodist Church litanies, in fact, but the churches are not the same.
At the time of the Civil War, The ME Church divided into the ME Church South and the ME Church (which was Union in sympathy and kept the original name). As noted, it was in the early 20th century that the ME Church South reunited with the ME Church and became simply "The Methodist Church". The merging with the United Evangelical Brethren came in the 1960s, and although there have been discussions with the Episcopalians and Lutherans, no further mergers have occurred since.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Mostly Anglican (aka Church of England) and various forms of ana Baptist. Later on many converted to either Church of Christ (similar to Baptist) or Pentecostal (Baptist + speaking in tongues ). Apparently my great grandfather Clark was a Pentecostal minister who also sold moonshine on the side in Harlan Co KY. He actually changed his last name at least 4 times after killing some federal agent who tried to break up his moonshining (guess he missed the part about turn the other cheek LOL)
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