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Baptist
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands (English Separatists); spread to England and America
Scripture alone, believer's baptism by immersion, congregational governance.
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Seventh-day Adventist
📍 Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Saturday Sabbath, healthy living, and the imminent return of Christ.
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Churches of Christ (a cappella)
📍 Southern USA (Tennessee, Texas)
Scripture only: no instruments in worship, no creed, believer's baptism for salvation.
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Christian Churches (Independent)
📍 USA (Midwest)
Instrumental Stone-Campbell conservatives: direct New Testament Christianity.
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Stundists
📍 Ukraine (Odessa region), Russian Empire
Ukrainian Protestant movement born from German pietist Bible hours.
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Non-denominational Evangelical
📍 USA (primarily); now global
Bible-believing, Jesus-centred Christianity without traditional denominational labels.
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Plymouth Brethren
📍 Plymouth, England; Dublin, Ireland
No clergy, no creed: just the Lord's Table and Scripture exposition.
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Church of the Nazarene (Holiness)
📍 Pilot Point, Texas, USA
Entire sanctification: Wesley's second blessing in the American heartland.
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Salvation Army
📍 East London, England
An army for God: evangelism, soup kitchens, and no sacraments.
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Primitive Baptist
📍 Southern USA
Old-school Calvinist Baptists: no Sunday schools, no paid ministers, no instruments.
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Free Methodist Church
📍 Pekin, New York, USA
Free pews, free slaves, free grace - the abolitionist breakaway from Methodism.
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Wesleyan Church
📍 Indiana, USA
Holiness, social action, and entire sanctification in the Wesleyan tradition.
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Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
📍 Anderson, Indiana, USA
No membership roll, no creed - just the restored New Testament Church.
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Christian Missionary Alliance (C&MA)
📍 New York City, USA
A.B. Simpson's Fourfold Gospel: Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, Coming King.
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Brethren in Christ
📍 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Where Anabaptist, Pietist, and Holiness streams converge.
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Stundists
Evangelical~1860s
📍 Ukraine (Odessa region), Russian Empire
🌍 Absorbed into the Ukrainian Baptist Union and evangelical churches
Origin
Stundism arose in southern Ukraine in the 1860s through the influence of German Reformed and Lutheran colonists who held devotional 'Bible hours' (Stunden). Ukrainian peasants began meeting similarly - reading Scripture and praying outside the Orthodox Church. The movement spread rapidly before severe Tsarist persecution (1894–1905). Stundists merged with Russian Baptists and form the ancestor of today's Ukrainian evangelical churches.
Core beliefs
- Scripture alone as authority
- Justification by faith alone
- Believers' baptism by immersion (adopted from Baptist influence)
- Rejection of Orthodox ceremony and icons
- Personal conversion and holy living
Worship style
Simple evangelical worship: Scripture reading, hymn-singing, prayer, and Bible exposition. No icons or clerical vestments. Originally house meetings; now incorporated into Ukrainian Baptist and evangelical church life.
Key scriptures
- Romans 1:17
- John 3:16
- Acts 2:38
- 2 Timothy 3:16–17
Relationship to other denominations
Forerunner of Ukrainian Baptist and evangelical Christianity. Influenced by German pietism and later by Baptist missionaries. Historically significant for Ukrainian Protestant identity.