Who am I?

I’m showing my ignorance here but…

Labels never meant that much to me personally (except that of "Christian"), but others use them so I guess I should know to what label I belong.

I grew up in the Christian Church and have spent the last 20 years in the Church of Christ.

I know I am Protestant, a product of the Reformation and Restoration Movements, but I also see the term "evangelical" connected with the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary. The Editor’s Preface to the commentary says:

“Each of the authors affirms historic, orthodox Christianity and the inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures. In this series, the biblical books are studied with the tested tools of biblical scholarship, keeping in mind that these books, produced by human authors, come from the very mouth of God (2 Tim 3:16). The EEC reflects the important interpretative principles of the Reformation, while utilizing historical-grammatical and contextual interpretative methods.”

All this seems to be in line with what I believe so does that mean I am “evangelical” too?

Is there a resource - even better yet a chart, that illustrates the major different Christian splits (I don’t like that word), when they split and who they branched off from?

Thanks.

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Rich DeRuiter

You could look at the Encyclopedia of Christianity Vol. 2, Page 216 for a discussion of the term as you are trying to understand it (the Evangelical Movement).

DMB

I don't know how much your comments are philosophical. I grew in the 'anti's portion of the Church of Christ. But this site http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/Families/ is really good in tracking down a lot of the developments.

I especially like the charts (example here is the Methodists): http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/Families/Trees/familytree_methodist.asp I wish these type of charts were in Logos.

Ronald Quick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255686#Comment_255686

Thanks for the information.

I like the charts - I wish Logos had something similar.

Mike Childs

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255686#Comment_255686

Thanks for this info. What helpful charts.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255831#Comment_255831

Your question reminded me of this poem by Bonhoeffer:

“Who am I?”

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer (March 4, 1945)

Who am I? They often tell me

I would step from my cell’s confinement

calmly, cheerfully, firmly,

like a squire from his country-house.

Who am I? They often tell me

I would talk to my warders

freely and friendly and clearly,

as though it were mine to command.

Who am I? They also tell me

I would bear the days of misfortune

equably, smilingly, proudly,

like one accustomed to win.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of?

Or am I only what I know of myself?

restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,

struggling for breath, as though hands were

compressing my throat,

yearning for colours, for flowers, for the voices of birds,

thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,

trembling in expectation of great events,

powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,

weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,

faint, and ready to say farewell to it all?

Who am I? This or the other?

Am I one person today, and tomorrow another?

Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,

and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?

Or is something within me still like a beaten army,

fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?

Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.

Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine.

–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Who am I?” in Letters & Papers From Prison (New York: Touchstone, 1953/1997), 347-8.

Giovanni Baggio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255857#Comment_255857

Hi my name is Sam...LOL

Ward Walker

... and who they branched off from?

Thanks.

Didn't everyone originate as Southern Baptists--except the Calvinists; they always were what they were? [;)]

Paul Golder

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256175#Comment_256175

Didn't everyone originate as Southern Baptists--except the Calvinists; they always were what they were?

Well, there were the original 11 Calvinists (12 if you count Paul)...[:P]

Michael Anda

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/255857#Comment_255857

Your question reminded me of this poem by Bonhoeffer:

You're living good, Rosie. The OP's subject reminded ME of Derek Zoolander. [8-|]

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256206#Comment_256206

Well, there were the original 11 Calvinists (12 if you count Paul)...

What? No one else claims the women, the 70, and the crowds? I think I'll trump you all and very carefully simply label us as Christian as they were first called ...(Search surface text English Bibles "first called" NEAR Christian)

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256217#Comment_256217

Well, there were the original 11 Calvinists (12 if you count Paul)...

What? No one else claims the women, the 70, and the crowds? I think I'll trump you all and very carefully simply label us as Christian as they were first called ...(Search surface text English Bibles "first called" NEAR Christian)

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

Rom 8.28-29

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256234#Comment_256234

(Search surface text English Bibles "first called" NEAR Christian)

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

If that is what you get when you search for "first called" NEAR Christian I suggest you rebuild you Bible Index. [:P]

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256237#Comment_256237

(Search surface text English Bibles "first called" NEAR Christian)

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

If that is what you get when you search for "first called" NEAR Christian I suggest you rebuild you Bible Index.

I neither stated nor implied that was the case. You simply inferred it.