List of doctrinal and dogmatic differences..

[Ag_not]

I’m looking for a resource that goes through the doctrinal and dogmatic differences between Christian faiths. I’ve not had much luck searching on line.

We’ve heard it so many times on these boards that there are 60,000 or so demoninations seperated by thousands of differing doctrines and dogmas.

It’s these list of dogmatic and/or doctrinal differences Im after.

As always, thanking you in advance for your thoughtful time and contribution.



Bruxilda.

 

[flameburns623]

I can’t help you much on your central question. I would warn you however that the numbers sometimes used by Catholics tend to sometimes be inflated. A lot of Protestant organizations subscribe to the same basic beliefs and practices and are separated only by national or regional boundaries, for example. Counting these differences as substantive is unfair, rather like suggesting that because the US Catholic Church is governed by a different set of governning bodies than the CC in Canada or Great Britain, these differences make the CC subdivided into multiple sects.

There are books such as the Handbook of Denominations which describe various denominations and cite their beliefs and practices to some degree. Hopefully someone knows whether any books exist which have a compilation of the various creeds, confessions, and statements of faith of more than just the historic Protestant churches.

 

[1ke]

This chart is a pretty good high level overview. It’s not perfect, and certainly not detailed:

religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/denominations_beliefs.htm

There are many denominations that profess no creed nor do they produce a document such as a catechism summarizing their doctrines. It is very difficult to do a side by side comparison of Catholic beliefs to these so-called bible churches because each pastor makes his own doctrine. There is no central authority in many of these denominations once you get beyond the mainstream groups such as Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal… and even then you have to recognize there are **numerous **splinter groups from each of these “mainline” denominations.

 

[ralphinal]

This chart is a pretty good high level overview. It’s not perfect, and certainly not detailed:

religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/denominations_beliefs.htm

There are many denominations that profess no creed nor do they produce a document such as a catechism summarizing their doctrines. It is very difficult to do a side by side comparison of Catholic beliefs to these so-called bible churches because each pastor makes his own doctrine. There is no central authority in many of these denominations once you get beyond the mainstream groups such as Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal… and even then you have to recognize there are **numerous **splinter groups from each of these “mainline” denominations.

That is a decent chart. I would point out that the EO do not accept the Immaculate conception because of a difference in understanding of Original sin, and they hold that she was assumed into heaven, but it is not taught as Dogma as defined by Catholics.

 

[savedsinner]

This chart is a pretty good high level overview. It’s not perfect, and certainly not detailed:

religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/denominations_beliefs.htm

There are many denominations that profess no creed nor do they produce a document such as a catechism summarizing their doctrines. It is very difficult to do a side by side comparison of Catholic beliefs to these so-called bible churches because each pastor makes his own doctrine. There is no central authority in many of these denominations once you get beyond the mainstream groups such as Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal… and even then you have to recognize there are **numerous **splinter groups from each of these “mainline” denominations.

Wow, some of those denominational beliefs seem kind of wishy washy to me.

"The Bible is inspired. “For some, that means the Bible is inerrant. For others, it means that even though the Bible is culturally conditioned and not necessarily factual or even always true, it breathes with the life of God.”

It is like they should have a motto:
“Come to our church where we teach the truth and your truth, and their truth.”