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Assyrian Church of the EastandPentecostalism
At a glance
- Common groundIn full: Common ground
- Common inheritanceNo direct historical relationship: the Church of the East developed beyond the Roman Empire from the 5th century, more than a thousand years before the Reformation. What they share is the Bible and the faith of Nicaea as each receives it.
2 sources
- The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and MaterialsSource verified
- Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsIdentified, not independently read
Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.
- Common inheritanceNo direct historical relationship: the Church of the East developed beyond the Roman Empire from the 5th century, more than a thousand years before the Reformation. What they share is the Bible and the faith of Nicaea as each receives it.
- Key differencesIn full: Key differences
- Sacraments and ordinancesAssyrian Church of the EastChrist's body and blood are truly presentPentecostalismA symbolic memorial of Christ's death
Below: 1 topic where teaching varies.
- How their histories connectIn full: How their histories connect
- Lines parted · 410–7th century · A gradual processA church beyond the Roman Empire (gradual estrangement)Read the account in Assyrian Church of the East
- Line of descentPentecostalism has roots in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement of the Methodist tradition (1901–1906), which grew out of a revival within the Church of England (1730s–1795), which took shape in the Reformation of the Western church under Rome (1534–1559).
- Connected today?In full: their relationship today
Not yet researched
The Atlas has not yet researched their present relationship. This is a gap, not evidence either way.
Composed from each tradition’s sourced records. Where a topic is not yet recorded for one side, the Atlas says so rather than guess.
Structured comparison. Composed from each tradition’s sourced position records. No research has yet been written for this particular pair, so the Atlas shows only what those records establish.
Where they differ
Sacraments and ordinances
Christ's presence in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper
- Assyrian Church of the East
- Christ's body and blood are truly present
- Pentecostalism
- A symbolic memorial of Christ's death
Where teaching varies within a tradition (1)
God
Doctrine of God
- Assyrian Church of the East
- One God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- Pentecostalism
- One God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy SpiritOneness Pentecostal churches reject the doctrine of the Trinity, so this is not a position of the whole movement.
Not yet comparable (11)
No sourced position is recorded for one side, so the Atlas does not say whether they agree:
- Christ (christ's divinity): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Christ (how christ's divinity and humanity are expressed): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Creeds and councils (the nicene creed): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Creeds and councils (councils received): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Scripture and authority (sources of authority): not recorded for Assyrian Church of the East
- Salvation and grace (characteristic emphasis): not recorded for Assyrian Church of the East
- Sacraments and ordinances (how the rites are understood and counted): not recorded for Assyrian Church of the East
- Sacraments and ordinances (who is baptised): not recorded for Assyrian Church of the East
- Church and ministry (church government): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Church and ministry (ministry): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Mary and the saints (how mary is named): not recorded for Pentecostalism
How their histories relate
The Atlas has no researched record of a direct historical relationship between these two. Not every pair of traditions experienced a schism or union with each other. Each took shape in its own way:
Their relationship today
Not yet researched
The Atlas has no researched record of the present relationship between these two. That is a gap in the research, not evidence of any particular relationship.
Developments towards reconciliation
No documented agreement or formal dialogue between these traditions is recorded in the Atlas.
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