Category:Lutheranism

Lutheranism refers to the Christian tradition inspired by Martin Luther's Evangelical movement, which sought to reform the practices of the Roman Catholic Church in the early 16th century. This movement also led to a larger split within the Roman Catholic Church known as the Protestant Reformation, and eventually to Protestantism today.

Christian denominations

                     - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -/== Restorationism
                   /  (Claim of separate lineage)  /
                                                  /==== Protestantism 
                 /                               /
                                Reformation     /====== Anglicanism 
               /              (16th century)-> /
Early               Great Schism     /================= (Western Rites)
Christianity /     (11th century)-> /      | <-"Unia"   Roman Catholicism
==================================={     /============= (Eastern Rites)
Council of -> \  \ <-Council of     \   /
Ephesus (413)  \  \  Chalcedon (451) \================= Eastern Orthodoxy
                \  \
                 \  \================================== Oriental Orthodoxy
                  \
                   \=================================== Assyrian Church
                                                        of the East