Anyone ever seen something like this? In particular, something that shows when each of the major Judeo-christian religions split off and why.
Something as simple as a list of entries like this:
1536: Anglican Church from Roman Catholic - because Henry VIII wanted a divorce.
I’ve seen things similar- a real one would be pretty unified for the first 400 years, a main trunk with little branches of Arians, Gnostics, Coptics, Nestorians, with a slight split along the trunk in the 400s between the Eastern & Western Church over the “filoque” clause in the Creed, with the complete split occurring in 1054 of the Eastern Orthodox & the Roman Catholic Churches. The EO would be much an interwoven vine of the autocephalous Patriarchates while the RC would have small branches of Waldensians, Lollards & Hussites until 1517 when Luther sparked off a major branch.
I can tell you my own denominations branching- the Apostolic Catholic Orthodox Church (32 AD)->the Roman Catholic Church (325 AD- Conversion of Constantine, 1054 AD- Split from Eastern Orthodox Church, centralizing of Western Church’s authority in the Bishop of Rome)->The Church of England (1536- Henry VIII of course)->The Methodist movements/Church (late 1700s-early 1800s- Anglican evangelical-revivalist movements which could not be kept within Anglican Church strictures)->Wesleyan-Holiness revivals/Churches (late 1800s, when Methodism
became too structured for the Enthusiasts within it)->The Parhamite & Azuza Street charismatic/healing revivals (1901- W/H Enthusiasts sought restoration of
the Apostolic miraculous gifts)->The Assemblies of God (1914- Charismatic-healing enthusiasts sought the structure & discipline & respectability that a denominational body offered).
Actually, that family tree would be quite an interesting web page. Christianity would split off from Judaism, Islam would split off from …uh, somewhere, there would be all the other religions of the ancient Fertile Crescent rising and falling…
I have one at home – It’s on a two-part Comparative Chart of Religions that I picked up in a “Missionary Store” in Salt Lake City. The chart doesn’t explicitly say it’s made by the LDS (and it’s printed in St. Louis, not exactly a hotbed of Mormonism), but you can tell from the questions they ask and the religions not included that it’s made up by the LDS, and has a heavily American slant. The second chart has a “family tree” of religions that I would, on the whole, agree with.
Not exactly – Henry wanted an annulment because the marriage was incestuous.
That may have been the stated reason, though the marriage was not incestuous as people would normally define it: Catherine had been married to Henry’s older brother Arthur, who died while still a teenager. But the real reason was that Henry wanted a male heir, and Catherine had only produced a daughter (Mary, who went on to become Queen of England after her younger brother’s death). And there was a real problem there, even after Henry had married 6 times: by 1603, there were no surviving legitimate descendants of Henry VIII, and King James VI of Scotland became King of England.