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AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. |
Subject: Taking Care of Veracity in Statistics |
Bible Note: "A denomination is defined in this Encyclopedia as an organized aggregate of worship centers or congregations of similar ecclesiastical tradition within a specific country; i.e. as an organized Christian church or tradition or religious group or community of believers, within a specific country, whose component congregations and members are called by the same denominational name in different areas, regarding themselves as one autonomous Christian church distinct from other denominations, churches and traditions. As defined here, world Christianity consists of 6 major ecclesiastico-cultural blocs, divided into 300 major ecclesiastical traditions, composed of over 33,000 distinct denominations in 238 countries, these denominations themselves being composed of over 3,400,000 worship centers, churches or congregations." (Barrett et al, volume 1, page 16, Table 1-5) So we have, according to Barrett's Encyclopedia: "a denomination is defined as existing within a specific country there are 33,000 total of these 'Christian denominations' in 238 total countries These 33,000 are subdivided into '6 major ecclesiastico-cultural mega-blocs,' and ordering them by denomination size we have (I am rounding up or down slightly for convenience, using year 2000 figures): Independents (about 22000) Protestants (about 9000) 'Marginals' (about 1600) Orthodox (781) Roman Catholics (242) Anglicans (168) So the 33,000 number is from the total of these 6 mega-blocs: 22,000 plus 9000 plus 1,600 plus 781 plus 242 plus 168 equals around 33,000 That's where the 33,000 figure comes from. If you count the "mega-bloc" of 'Protestants' only it is 9000 / 33000 or 27 percent of the total. However, if you combine Protestants with Independents and Anglicans it is 94 percent of the total or 31,000 . We will see .. that most (about 97 percent) of the 'Independent' churches are indeed Protestants. ... All of the information ... is found on pages 16-18 (volume 1) of the World Christian Encyclopedia (2001, 2nd edition). --Richard N. Ostling, Associated Press, 19 May 2001 "While the World Christian Encyclopedia does refer to 'only' 9000 or so denominations as 'Protestant' the source also includes 22,000 or so denominations as 'Independent' and if you look at the names of these 'Independent' groups above, you'll see most of them are clearly Protestant (the 'Apostolic', the 'Charismatic', the 'Full Gospel', the house or home churches, the pentecostals, probably all the TV/radio Christians, and all the independents of other Protestant denominations listed, etc). None of these are Catholic or Orthodox, but there appear to be some renegade Orthodox, Anglicans, and schismatic Catholics among the 'Independents.' The largest of these Independent Christians are 'White-led charismatic' (17,478,000 members [year 1995], in 2,856 separate denominations [year 2000]), 'African independent pentecostal' (18,943,000 members [year 1995], in 5385 separate denominations [year 2000]), and 'African neocharismatic of mixed traditions' (1,500,000 members [year 1995], in 3333 separate denominations [year 2000]). These three are all Protestant (neither Catholic, nor Orthodox) and account for more than half (53 percent) of the 22,000 'Independent' denominations." See the whole article here: http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/a106.htm That really is a great article. Check it out and see who are creating the most diverse congregations. |
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