A FAMILY TREE OF
THE PROTESTANT MOVEMENT:
A CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM OF
THE PROTESTANT MOVEMENT BY
MAJOR TRADITIONS AND DENOMINATIONAL FAMILIES

CLASCODE

TRADITIONS-FAMILIES

B1.0

OLDER LITURGICAL (CLASSICAL) TRADITION, 1517-1530

B1.1

Lutheran Family (1517, 1530)

B1.2

Reformed/Presbyterian Family (1523)

B1.3

Anglican/Episcopal Family (1534)

B2.0

EVANGELICAL SEPARATIST ("FREE CHURCH") TRADITION, 1521

B2.1

Anabaptist/Mennonite Family (1521)

B2.2

Baptist Family (1610)

B2.3

Pietist Family (1670)

B2.4

Independent Fundamentalist Family (1827)

B2.5

Holiness Family (1839)

B2.6

Restoration Movement Family (1830s)

B2.7

Other Separatist Churches with Pre-Reformation Origins in Europe (1170s)

B3.0

ADVENTIST TRADITION, 1836

B3.1

Millerist Family that observes Sunday (1855)

B3.2

Millerist Family that observes Saturday (1850s)

B3.3

Adventist Church of God Family (1863)

B4.0

PENTECOSTAL TRADITION: 1901, 1906

B4.1

Apostolic Faith Pentecostal Family (1901)

B4.2

Pentecostal Holiness Family (1906)

B4.3

Name of Jesus ("Oneness") Pentecostal Family (1907)

B4.4

Finished Work Pentecostal Family (1910)

B4.5

Sabbatical Pentecostal Family (1930s)

B4.6

Healing/Deliverance Pentecostal Family (1947)

B4.7

Latter Rain Pentecostal Family (1948)

B4.8

Charismatic/Pentecostal Family (1950s)

B4.9

Shepherding Pentecostal Family (1968)

B4.10

Word of Faith Pentecostal Family (1970s)

B5.0

UNCLASSIFIED PROTESTANT GROUPS

B6.0

MIXED GROUPS: PENTECOSTAL AND NON-PENTECOSTAL

SOURCE: Clifton L. Holland, IDEA/PROLADES (10/27/95)