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  • Bases
    • Etymology
    • Beliefs
      • Creeds
      • Jesus
        • Death and resurrection
      • Salvation
      • Trinity
        • Trinitarians
        • Nontrinitarianism
      • Eschatology
        • Death and afterlife
    • Practices
      • Communal worship
      • Sacraments
      • Liturgical calendar
      • Symbols
      • Baptism
      • Prayer
    • Scriptures
      • Catholic interpretation
      • Protestant interpretation
        • Qualities of Scripture
        • Original intended meaning of Scripture
    • History
      • Early Christianity
        • Apostolic Age
        • Ante-Nicene period
        • Spread and acceptance in Roman Empire
      • Early Middle Ages
      • High and Late Middle Ages
      • Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
      • Post-Enlightenment
    • Demographics
    • Christian Churches
      • Catholic Church
      • Eastern Orthodox Church
      • Oriental Orthodoxy
      • Assyrian Church of the East
      • Protestantism
      • Restorationism
      • Other
    • Influence on western culture
    • Ecumenism
    • Criticism, persecution, and apologetics
      • Criticism
      • Persecution
      • Apologetics
    • References
  • Christian theology
    • Christian traditions
    • Systematic theology
    • Prolegomena: Scripture as the basis of theology
      • Biblical revelation
      • Biblical inspiration
      • Biblical authority
      • Biblical canon
    • Theology proper: God
      • Attributes of God
        • Classification
        • Enumeration
        • Monotheism
        • Trinity
      • God the Father
      • Christology and Christ
        • Christ
        • Trinitarian Ecumenical Councils
        • Attributes of Christ
          • God as Son
          • Person of Christ
          • Incarnation
          • Hypostatic union
          • Other Christological concerns
        • Approaches to Christology
        • Works of Christ
      • Pneumatology: Holy Spirit
    • Cosmology: Things created
      • World
      • Anthropology: Humanity
        • Components
        • Origin of humanity
        • Death and afterlife
      • Mariology
      • Angelology
        • Members of the heavenly host
        • Demonology: Fallen angels
      • Heaven
      • Hell
      • Theodicy: Allowance of evil
    • Hamartiology: Sin
      • Sin
      • Fall of man
      • Original sin
      • Total depravity
    • Soteriology: Salvation
      • Traditional focus
      • Distinct schools
      • Catholic soteriology
    • Ecclesiology: Church
      • Ecclesiastical polity
      • Sacrament
        • Eucharist
    • Eschatology
      • Approaches to interpretation
    • References
  • Jesus
    • Etymology
    • Life and teachings in the New Testament
      • Canonical gospels
      • Genealogy and nativity
      • Early life, family, and profession
      • Baptism and temptation
      • Public ministry
        • Disciples and followers
        • Teachings and miracles
        • Proclamation as Christ and Transfiguration
      • Passion Week
        • Activities in Jerusalem
        • Last Supper
        • Agony in the Garden, betrayal, and arrest
        • Trials by the Sanhedrin, Herod, and Pilate
        • Crucifixion and entombment
      • Resurrection and Ascension
    • Early Christianity
    • Historical views
      • Judea and Galilee in the 1st century
      • Sources
      • Chronology
      • Historicity of events
        • Family
        • Baptism
        • Ministry in Galilee
        • Role
        • Passover and crucifixion in Jerusalem
        • After crucifixion
      • Portraits of Jesus
      • Language, ethnicity, and appearance
      • Christ myth theory
    • Perspectives
      • Christian
      • Jewish
      • Islamic
        • Ahmadiyya Islam
      • Bahá'í
      • Other
    • Artistic depictions
    • Associated relics
    • References
  • History of Christianity
    • Origins
      • Jewish-Hellenistic background
      • Ministry of Jesus
    • Early Christianity (c. 31/33–324)
      • Apostolic Age
      • Ante-Nicene period
        • Developing church structure
        • Variant Christianities
        • Development of the Biblical canon
        • Early orthodox writings
        • Early art
        • Persecutions and legalisation
    • Late antiquity (313–476)
      • Influence of Constantine
      • Arianism and the first ecumenical councils
      • Christianity as Roman state religion
      • Nestorianism and the Sasanian Empire
      • Monasticism
    • Early Middle Ages (476–799)
      • Western missionary expansion
      • Byzantine Iconoclasm
    • High Middle Ages (800–1299)
      • Carolingian Renaissance
      • Growing tensions between East and West
      • Photian schism
      • East–West Schism (1054)
      • Monastic reform
      • Investiture Controversy
      • Crusades
      • Medieval Inquisition
      • Spread of Christianity
    • Late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance (1300–1520)
      • Avignon Papacy and Western Schism
      • Criticism of Church corruption
      • Italian Renaissance
      • Fall of Constantinople
    • Early modern period (c. 1500 – c. 1750)
      • Protestant Reformation
      • Counter-Reformation
      • English Reformation
      • Catholic Reformation
      • Trial of Galileo
      • Puritans in North America
    • Late modern period (c. 1750 – c. 1945)
      • Revivalism
      • Great Awakenings
      • Restorationism
      • Eastern Orthodoxy
      • Trends in Christian theology
      • Under Nazism
    • Contemporary Christianity
      • Second Vatican Council
      • Ecumenism
      • Pentecostal movement
      • Ecumenism within Protestantism
    • References
  • Christian denomination
    • Terminology
    • Major branches
      • Denominationalism
    • Historical schisms and divisions
      • Antiquity
      • Middle Ages
      • Protestant Reformation (16th century)
      • Old and Liberal Catholic Churches (19th-20th centuries)
      • Eastern Christianity
      • Western Christianity
      • Christians with Jewish roots
    • Modern history
      • Latter Day Saint movement
      • Second Great Awakening
      • Russian sectarianism
      • Iglesia ni Cristo
      • New Thought Movement
      • The Christian Community
      • Way Followers Christian Institution
      • Other movements
    • References
  • Eastern Orthodox Church
    • Name and characteristics
      • Orthodoxy
      • Catholicity
    • Organisation and leadership
      • Church councils
      • Adherents
    • Theology
      • Trinity
      • Sin, salvation, and the incarnation
      • Resurrection of Christ
      • Christian life
      • Virgin Mary and other saints
      • Eschatology
      • Bible
      • Holy Tradition and the patristic consensus
      • Territorial expansion and doctrinal integrity
    • Worship
      • Church calendar
      • Church services
        • Music and chanting
        • Incense
      • Fasting
      • Almsgiving
    • Traditions
      • Monasticism
      • Icons and symbols
        • Icons
        • Iconostasis
        • Cross
      • Art and architecture
      • Local customs
    • Holy mysteries (sacraments)
      • Baptism
      • Chrismation
      • Holy Communion (Eucharist)
      • Repentance (Confession)
      • Marriage
      • Holy orders
      • Unction
    • History
      • Early Church
      • Ecumenical councils
      • Roman/Byzantine Empire
      • Early schisms
      • Conversion of South and East Slavs
      • Great Schism (1054)
      • Greek Church under Ottoman rule
      • Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire
      • Orthodox churches under Communist rule
    • Interfaith relations
      • Relations with other Christians
      • Relations with Islam
    • Present
      • Main communion
      • Traditionalist groups
        • True Orthodox
        • Old Believers
      • Churches not in communion with others
    • References
  • Catholic Church
    • Name
    • Organization
      • Holy See, papacy, Roman Curia, and College of Cardinals
      • Canon law
      • Latin and Eastern churches
      • Dioceses, parishes, organizations and institutes
      • Membership
    • Doctrine
      • Nature of God
      • Nature of the church
      • Final judgement
      • Saints and devotions
      • Virgin Mary
    • Sacraments
      • Sacraments of initiation
        • Baptism
        • Confirmation
        • Eucharist
      • Sacraments of healing
        • Penance
        • Anointing of the sick
      • Sacraments at the service of communion
        • Holy Orders
        • Matrimony
    • Liturgy
      • Western rites
      • Eastern rites
    • Social and cultural issues
      • Catholic social teaching
      • Social services
      • Sexual morality
        • Divorce and declarations of nullity
        • Contraception
        • Homosexuality
      • Holy orders and women
      • Sexual abuse cases
    • History
      • Apostolic era and papacy
      • Antiquity and Roman Empire
      • Middle Ages and Renaissance
      • Age of Discovery
      • Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
      • Enlightenment and modern period
      • 20th century
        • Second Vatican Council
        • John Paul II
      • 21st century
        • Pope Francis
    • References
  • Protestantism
    • Terminology
      • Protestant
      • Evangelical
      • Reformational
    • Theology
      • Main principles
      • Trinity
      • Five solae
      • Christ's presence in the Eucharist
    • History
      • Pre-Reformation
      • Reformation proper
      • Post-Reformation
    • Radical Reformation
    • Denominations
      • United and uniting churches
    • Major branches
      • Adventism
      • Anabaptism
      • Anglicanism
      • Baptists
      • Calvinism
      • Lutheranism
      • Methodism
      • Pentecostalism
      • Other Protestants
    • Interdenominational movements
      • Evangelicalism
      • Charismatic movement
      • Neo-charismatic churches
    • Other Protestant developments
      • Arminianism
      • Pietism
      • Puritanism, English dissenters and nonconformists
      • Neo-orthodoxy and paleo-orthodoxy
      • Christian fundamentalism
      • Modernism and liberalism
    • Protestant culture
      • Thought and work ethic
      • Science
      • Government
      • Rights and liberty
      • Social teaching
      • Arts
    • Catholic responses
    • Ecumenism
    • Spread and demographics
    • References
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