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RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	The modern 24-7 Prayer Movement: a movement spanning denominations focusing on the pursuit of God as the focus of one's life. The International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO is a visible example of this concept.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	British Israelism or "Anglo-Israelism": The Christian belief that many modern descendants of British and European heritage are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes or directly from the Tribe of Judah and thereby the heirs of the covenants with Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Charismatic movement or "Neo-Pentecostalism": Pentecostal beliefs and practices spread to churches outside of the Holiness tradition.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Charismatic Restorationism: Pentecostalism beliefs and practices together with restorationist elements that reject denominationalism. Closely related to Latter Rain Movement.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian ecumenism: The promotion of unity or cooperation between distinct religious groups or denominations of the Christian religion.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian Family Movement: a U.S. movement of parish and small groups of families that meet to reinforce Christian values.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian fundamentalism: sought to assert a minimal set of traditional Christian beliefs against the influences of Modernist Christianity; became a movement of separation from the "mainline" Protestant churches.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian Identity: A label applied to a wide variety of loosely-affiliated groups and churches with white supremacist beliefs.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian naturism: A movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian Torah-submission: A movement of Christians that pursue lifestyles that are both fully dedicated to Jesus Christ and also obedient to God's commands found in the Torah.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Christian Zionism (called "Christian Restorationism" until the mid-twentieth century): The belief that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and the establishment of the State of Israel is in accordance with Biblical prophecy and is a necessary precondition for the return of Jesus to reign on Earth.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Confessing Movement: a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant churches to return those churches to what members see as greater theological orthodoxy.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Conservative Evangelicalism: a division of evangelicalism characterised by reformed theology.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Convergence Movement: a move among evangelical and charismatic churches in the United States to blend charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical sources.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Creationism: There are several schools of creationist thought, but all include some belief in the divine creation of human beings over a short period of time (distinguishing them from theistic evolutionists).
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Eastern Catholicism: A movement on the part of some particular Eastern churches to join in visible communion with the Bishop of Rome after the East:West Schism.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Emerging church movement: a transdenominational movement that seeks to reshape Christian epistemology, doctrines, and practices to fit into a postmodern mold.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Evangelicalism: A world-wide Protestant movement maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by faith in Christ's atonement.^[1]
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Free Grace Movement: Originally a reaction against Reformed soteriology making inroads in Dispensationalism, it has since developed away from some dispensational soteriology, like its understanding of repentance.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Focolare Movement: an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Grace Movement: A movement beginning in the 1930s embracing the Mid-Acts position Dispensational system of Bible interpretation.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Hebrew Roots movement: Emphasizes the Jewish roots of Christianity and understanding Jesus and the New Testament in the light of Old Testament observances and Jewish tradition.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Holiness movement: A Wesleyan movement beginning in the 19th century which emphasized a personal experience of holiness, and which gave rise to Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	The House Church or Simple Church movement is a worldwide shift of Christian expression in small groups rather than in formal institutionalized buildings.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement: officially, a British movement seeking a more inclusive church; unofficially, part of a larger number of LGBT-welcoming church programs.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Liberal Christianity (Protestant) or Modernism (Catholicism): school of Christian thought which rose as a direct challenge to more conservative traditional Christian orthodoxy.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Missional Movement: A modern movement of Christianity that seeks to emphasize the call of the church towards a missions type of lifestyle focused on themes like social justice and inculturation.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Neo-orthodoxy: emphasis on the transcendence of God, the reality of sin, and an existentialist encounter with the word of God.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	New Thought Movement: belief in metaphysical interpretation of the Bible. Phineas Quimby is generally considered the founder of New Thought. His influence on the New Thought movement can be traced through Unity Church, Divine Science, Religious Science, Understanding Principles for Better Living Church and Seicho-No-Ie.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Oxford Movement: A nineteenth century movement to more closely align Anglicanism with its Roman Catholic heritage; part of Anglo-Catholicism, a movement that continues into the 21st century.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Paleo-Orthodoxy: evaluating later theology in light of the writings of the early Church.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Pentecostalism: the gifts of the Holy Spirit are a normal part of the "Full Gospel".
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Prosperity Theology: (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success) is a Christian religious doctrine that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to Christian ministries will always increase one's material wealth.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Positive Christianity: a movement within Nazi Germany which blended ideas of racial purity and Nazi ideology with elements of Christianity.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Postmodern Christianity: an understanding of Christianity that has been influenced by continental philosophy.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Restoration Movement, also known as the "Stone-Campbell movement": a group of religious reform movements that arose during the Second Great Awakening and sought to renew the whole Christian church "after the New Testament pattern", in contrast to divided Christendom, of Catholicism and Protestantism.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS	Restorationism (Christian primitivism): the belief that a purer form of Christianity should be restored using the early church as a model.