History of Christianity (Full Series) 

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I couldn't sleep, so I started watching this, thinking it would knock me out quickly. Instead I learned the entire history of christian denominations

Really hope this religious studies series never ends, you're just too good at it

What a devoted scholar! I can't believe I get to soak all of this in tuition free...his attention to detail is next-level, and his gracious adjustments after he is given feedback is endearing. His continued fine-tuning is indicative of the passion he has for his topic. So fortunate I stumbled across this 💚

I'd say this is, without hesitation, some of the best educational lecturing I've ever seen in my life. It's not only ridiculously good RU-vid content, it's just great material, unbelievably well presented. You explain these disparately-connected, sometimes-murky historical timelines in such a way that makes everything feel easy-breezy and digestible, while still maintaining nuance and breadth. You're infinitely clear and concise, not ever over explaining, gracefully walking us through complex histories without once tangling the web or losing the thread. Your steady tone is neither light nor heavy, and you somehow simplify without condescending. I'm in awe of your abilities. Thank you for this. (Not to mention the fucking _wildly_ beautiful chart, holy shit. Not florid, not cloying, not boring...just beautiful and instantly readable like the MTA Subway map. A triumph!)

Thanks again for making this wonderful series! What a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to study this issue. It really is the best chart in existence on this topic.

I am Syrian Orthodox and you represent the Eastern Christian Churches very well. You do the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox a great service. Thank you

Amazing that you correct the mistakes that you have made in previous parts. You actually listen, admit, and change your mistakes. Unlike most on RU-vid.

I'm convert to Roman Catholicsm from Islam.

MATT BAKER, YOU ARE A LEGEND. This is such a wonderful gift to us all. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Can you do something like this on Zoroastrianism? Also, a "Who wrote the Avestas" would be extremely enlightening.

2:44:36 He throws so much shade when he says L. Ron Hubbard made the whole thing up from scratch 😂 I love it

I can't believe this lasted only 3 short hours, I could have listened to you ALL day and wanted more. Excellent work, excellent! 👏👏👏👏👏

amazing video. from someone who grew up pentecostal and looked into many many denominations before eventually coming home to the Catholic Church, I appreciate how absolutely thorough and academic this is. just incredible work!

This is overwhelming - hard for me to find words! I was raised in an SDA family in Germany and had contacts to many groups of christians including LDS (mormons), JW, pentecostals, (buddhists), world wide church of god (Armstrong) etc. You really spent lots of time with these denominations and did a really great job! I really appreciate your work!

As a Christian I love how you take a neutral look at the faiths and present the facts, we need more people that are willing to speak with respect and present the historical facts of religious faiths.

I hadn’t really paid attention to your videos after the second one as I was disappointed that the Russian Old Believers hadn’t been even mentioned. I didn’t know your charts were so dynamic and responsive to suggestions from RU-vid viewers. The community I live in has a large Russian Old Believer population as well as several other Christian denominations. Religion history is really interesting to me. Thank you for all your work on this!

I could see a college professor basing an entire course on exploring this series and chart.

Omg Matt, I am a Jewish student teacher about to give my first ever lesson plan which is about the origins of Christianity and then a follow up of the early church. I know Christian history somewhat well from your videos and my courses, but the timing here is so helpful! Thank you!

I’ve been looking for this explanation for my entire life. While it only begins to scratch the surface of the subject, it provides a clear structure to very complex lineages.

A correction: Jehovah’s Witnesses do not claim that the correct Hebrew pronunciation of the Divine Name is “Jehovah”. The pronunciation of the divine name will vary from language to language. In English, the most common pronunciation has been “Jehovah”.

Matt, this is one of my favorite charts you've done. I especially like how in your original presentation you kept modifying the chart based on viewer feedback. It shows that you are responsive. Funny how everybody wants to pin their tail on your donkey - sometimes you found their tail to be relevant. This chart can be used as a roadmap to study how a idea, like a meme (e.g. method of baptism, Sabbatarianism, etc.) can move from one group to another. Memes don't need to flow through an org chart, but can appear spontaneously in one group and then jump (like being transported) across time and space to another apparently unrelated group. You've done a tremendous job here. Tx.

I've been praying for this work! Amazing scholarship, crazy timing for me!

Thanks for the charts and lesson Matt! You’re truly amazing. I wish the best for you and your family

Thank you so very much for combining all of the separate videos!

2:07:38 I don’t get why people continue to try to guess when Jesus will come back. It’s been tried so many times. And the Bible states in Matthew 24: 36-44 that no human shall know when he will return.

I really love that your doing this with your channel. This is one of the best ongoing series in this topic. I used to feel like I was the only “believer” who was interested in this history from an academic secular standpoint. This is awesome, keep up the great work.

I really wish more Christians knew more about the history of their religion, Judaism, and the Israelite religion. Thank you for making this information accessible to the general public.

Brilliant! I've been looking for something like this for years. Thank you for putting this together!

This is such an amazing tool for understanding. Thank you! I really admire your patience and attention to detail here

I’m at 2hrs and 14min your academic approach is convincing me more and more to convert to Catholicism ! TY for doing this BTW! Very enlightening to me

I appreciate your continuous tweaking throughout after audience feedback! It shows your commitment to delivering the most accurate information possible.

This is by far the longest video I have ever watched on RU-vid! Fascinating! What would make this chart rock for me would be if at every schism there was a box leading to each side with a bullet point explaining the disagreement or reason for the break. I've learned so much from the video but am going to really struggle to remember without referring back regularly. Thanks for doing this!

Thank you for representing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a welcoming and respectful light. I appreciate your efforts researching this video, and I love your Book of Mormon chart video as well. May God bless you and your family.

Interesting how many important words like denomination, species, country, or continent tend to be really hard to specifically define in practice, yet we all have a relatively good understanding of them. Great video anyway!

I'm an athiest/agnostic (not exactly sure, though leaning more spirtually athiest) but I love learning about different cultures and religions especially to see how different people see our wonderful world. Your videos help so much in that quest of mine! Much love to all faiths, beliefs, and cultures in this world we share! 💖🫶

I love charts like this that give us an overview of a topic. It leaves people the opportunity to investigate particular aspects without losing the big picture.

It’s really great how you update retroactively.

Thank you so much, this is so informative, I followed and downloaded all the episodes. Can you please, in another session, cover the different councils and what they discussed. Thanks again!

i love your chart series.. can wait to get your poster

This was seriously one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! I got the chart and I’m going to rewatch it when I get the package so I can take better notes!

This is probably the best video you've done and you have done so many great ones. I initially found you when looking up videos about Armstrongism to send to a friend after I told them I was in a cult (Intercontinental Church of God, founded by Garner Ted Armstrong, son of Herbert W. Armstrong). Since watching your Armstrongism video, I've been hooked on your content. Keep up the good work! I'd love to see a chart just on the Armstrong breakaway groups

These long form breakdowns are incredible. Keep it up

Thank you for making this chart and you tube video. your research and collating this into one chart and the changes based off comments made have been so helpful for understanding the many churches existing today 👍

YES I’ve been waiting for months for this thank you Useful Charts

Speaking of Nestorianism, this branch of Christianity had a great influence on the Mongols and some of them were Nestorians, because Nestorian missionaries wandered through Central Asia. For this reason, when they appeared in the Middle East in the 13th century, there was a short-lived alliance between them and the crusaders.

Wow! This was AMAZING. I learned so much, too. Thank you for doing this. I've watched some of your other videos too.

This is amazing work. I learned so much, Thank you. Nice Job!

Great work as always, thank you very much. 🧡 Someone should make a chart about the history of charts made by Matt 📊

3 hours on a Friday night and I watch the whole thing! Love your videos!

Thank you Mark, i received my 4 charts they are awesome thank you.

Excellent! Thank you for your hard work. I watch this in one setting. I plan on buying this poster as well as several others, again thank you. I not only appreciate the intelligence but l found it very motivating.

Beautifully done. An excellent geneology of religion! A lot of work and though went into this chart.

Terry Jones once stated " Jesus told us to love each other, and we've spent 2,000 years killing each other over how he meant it"

This video was amazing and I applaud your efforts in studying and researching. It's amazing!

I watched this entire video in one morning. Excellent work UsefulCharts!

A compendium of amazing quantity and quality of scholarship. Congratulations and thanks. Parts of it remind me of Jonathon Swift's story about a country who went to civil war between one party insisting that boiled eggs should be cracked open from the round end, against the other party contending they must be cracked open from the pointy end.

Been going through rough and tough time for myself, specifically with my health. Listening to your videos has been helping me. Your voice is calm, and pleasant. I love listening to your videos. This is one of the most educational channels ever on RU-vid and I appreciate the depth of research you had gone through. They are all well constructed and explained. At night, I would play your videos and just close my eyes listening to your amazing lectures. You have taught me so much more about Abrahamic history than any of my local churches could. Thank you.

Thank you very much! Wow there is a lot to take in!

Wow! I really appreciate your work, sir! So extensive and informative. I all the more have a deeper understanding and appreciation about the roots of our faith. :)

Nice chart. It would be neat to see another chart with specific Christian beliefs with each denomination checkmarked as holding or denying each specific belief. No doubt many denominations differ in one or two beliefs, some rather petty, but it would be interesting to see how each one adheres or varies displayed on a single chart.

The most useful chart on this entire channel.

At last! Thank you for explaining a complex topic in such an easy-to-follow way.

Thanks for illuminating the tapestry of some of our choices in assembling together to work in the arts of making the world a better place by cultivating and celebrating reverence for the source of all life and all being.

Well, that's one of the best way to break it down...just a simple historical description of what it was and it is....By this virtue alone, it is a masterpiece....

Wow this is really good. I just noticed that it's three hours long. I learned so much in the first 10 minutes. There's no way I'm going to not finish this but it might not be today.

love your clear explanations and diagrams

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I greatly appreciate your honestly and accuracy in your portrayal of us! It’s hard to find people outside of my religion who can accurately tell me what it is we believe and who we are. Thank you!

I don’t want to sound repetitive here, but I’m a huge fan of this channel. Amazing work Mr. Baker!

Finally getting a grasp on who's who, this helps a lot for further reading. Thank you!

I watched all the way to the end on Thanksgiving Day. I know it was much work for you but I want you to know that I appreciate it immensely. Thank you.

absolutely stunning and connects the dots of what I've been self studying for 25 years Thank YOU for all your hard work !

If every Christian in the world buys a poster, please don’t stop making this kinda of content. Your work is a true testament.

The fact that this triumph of a chart and video was done so perfectly by. Jewish person, is remarkable. 10/10. Excellent. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷

I am really enjoying this video series and blow away by the vast amount of work that went into making it. As someone that grew up in the Assemblies of God and now Foursquare for the last 37 years, I have a couple of comments/corrections to mention. When an individual accepts Christ as their Savior and repents of their sins, they become “Born Again”. The Baptism in or of the Holy Spirit may or may not included speaking in tongues. There are several “gifts” of the Spirit ie tongues, interpretation, prophecy, etc. Also, I did not hear or see anything regarding the Philadelphia Church and Vineyard. Thanks for all your efforts. AMAZING!!!

Matt,Amazing presentation!! Well done you faithful believer!!!❤

Fantastic! It took me a few breaks to finish it, but I did it.😊❤

There are exceptions to the “one cathedral per diocese” rule! I grew up in the diocese of Houma-Thibodaux under the Archdiocese of New Orleans. There we had Co-Cathedrals. St. Francis in Houma and St. Joseph in Thibodaux

Thank you Useful Charts. May your tribe increase 🙏🏼

Exquisite presentation. Thank you soooo very much for the presentation. I look forward to viewing .... learning from .... other presentations. Again, thank you. Shalom.

I grew up as Church of God Anderson and honestly had no idea why they was a separation between Anderson and Cleveland. This was FASCINATING. Thank you for putting this together.

Wow, excellent job displaying the relationships. I have learned today.

Wow! Very good work putting so much details together.

Maybe you can expand this chart into a full Abrahamic religions and their denominations family tree chart which includes the different sects of Judaism and Islam (and religions that branched out of both of them) that you tacked in previous videos. Technically, as the chart shows, you can group Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (along with other small traditions like the Samaritans, Mandaeans, Rastafari, Druze, Yazidis, Babis, Azalis, Baha'is, etc) into a single family of religions known as the Abrahamic religions because they all claim Abraham as their "common ancestor" (although Mandaeism does not consider Abraham, Moses, and Jesus as among their prophets, I think it still is considered an Abrahamic religion since it recognizes many figures also found in other Abrahamic traditions and it is considered to have originated from an early Christian Gnostic sect).

Great video, very informative, I would love to have this chart to remember this forest of denominations. Nevertheless, it seems to me that at the end it was something more like "the origins of American denominations".

I grew up in the Salvation Army. Fascinating history in and of itself. I just also found it funny that you used my Parents good friend as the photo.

Man that was a big video, thanks for you research and effort

Excited about your interest in Zoroastrianism! A deep dive into 'Who wrote the Avestas' would be enlightening. Your series is a fantastic resource, and I share the hope that it never ends. Keep up the great work!

Man as someone who grew up Catholic bug doesn’t really practice anymore, these religion videos are just so interesting from a historical and archaeological perspective lmao

Holee sheet, I can't believe I actually sat down to watch through this for 3 hours straight! Jokes aside, this video has given me an immense insight into Christianity that no father, pastor or bishop has been able to before.

I really, really enjoyed this one. So much can be said for specification. This is an extremely well done explanation. Bravo.

I learned lots of things from these videos, but my favorite may be the Episcopal Church in America being connected to the independent Scottish Episcopalians. Amazing.

I really love this chart. Just a thought...even though nobody loves giving a shoutout to hate groups, I think it's important to show the relationship between fringe groups and where they came from. Those groups weren't created in a vacuum. They were originally good people that started to fall for the message of a rouge teacher. I know you removed the Westboro Baptist Church because they are more of a hate group but they didn't start there. It shows how even the best people can go astray when they are indoctrinated by a charismatic person.

Excellent presentation. Very clearly articulated as well as with the design.

I found myself mildly offended by the naturalistic view of the origin of Christianity. But I understand that is the explanation those who don't believe the biblical history, or find it more symbolic than literal. I appreciate this full dive into the history of what is currently recognized as Christianity.

Honey wake up, Useful charts just dropped a 3 hour banger history video

I understand this is already in print as is, but I would have loved to see more on the various Old Ritualists and their relations to other denominations.

I love the way you narrate things. I like these things. I love learning the history of religions and it helps my study oh so much. Thank you so much. I found your channel via your dna test video so went scrolling through your uploads originally to find that other dna test vid with the cat one then found this and well landed and here we are. I shared it on my discord and will share the other one. I have a friend who took to Islam was raised LDS and was into being a Krishna for a while too. me I can't figure out what I believe. I joined the LDS church have gone to various baptist churches thought of checking out the Catholics, all sorts of things. I feel so lost.

UsefulCharts, Your videos always brighten my day, so I subscribed!

I grew up in the Christian Science Church, my Grandmother's church. They did not believe in doctors. So, when I was 10, I started attending a United Methodist Church. After many many years, when the UMC started practicing the sanctity of same sex marriage, I stopped attending the UMC. Back when I was 10, my Mother decided I should be able to decide myself what church I wanted to attend. I believe she wanted to change churches as well. I also, looking back, being a wild child, I was always hurting myself, and we were always ending up at an emergency room or at a doctors office. She took me to a United Methodist Church a couple of times, so becoming a Methodist was just a an evolution in my life. Also, they had a really cool Boy Scout troop. I was lucky to have a really cool mom.