>tfw someone says "Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox"

>>2972648
Because Coptic Christianity is pretty small, especially in English-speaking countries.

Copts are usually lumped into Orthodox

Can someone redpill me Eastern Christianity? How much influence did they get from their Western counterpart? Is their Christianity closer to the original?

>>2972648
Monophysites should maybe be counted in the big four

>>2973069
What about Syriac Christianity?

>>2972895
They are closer to the original, the Byzantine empire stuck with the same christianity that the Roman empire had which became Orthodox.

>>2972648
Protestant is such a dumb label for any church that isn't Lutheran. I've seen even Mormons being described as protestant, why?

>>2973162
Maybe because the church was formed after the reformation and they don't follow the rule of the (((pope))). I agree protestantism is a loose label but don't be a fucking retard.

>>2973162
Lutherans are Protestant. It literally began with them (barring an legends about apostolic origins) and the proto-Protestant Hussites who converted to Lutheranism or adopted it's core tenets.

>>2973173
Lutherans absolutely are Protestant, I'd actually say they are the ONLY Protestants. It's lumping them together with those kooky American cults that I don't understand, considering Lutheranism is theologically far closer to Catholicism than to horseshit like Mormons and Charismatics.

>>2973189
What about Calvinism?

>>2973193
you were predestined to ask this question

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>>2973132
West Syriacs are within the Miaphysite camp East Syriacs are associated with Nestorianism.

>>2972895
To me it looks like the OO were in the beginning like separatist nationalist churches while the united Roman church was the state church. Eastern Orthodox churches today seem to be nationalistic but their ritualism looks a little more extravagant and stately which could be a remnant of its imperial past. OO churches also have highly elaborate traditions but seem to be more communal and resemble the idealizations of early Christian communities more and unlike the EO most except for the Ethiopians and Armenians haven't enjoyed a governing status for most of their existence at least. In that regard the Ethiopian Orthodox churches could be said to take on a more ruling character.

>>2973193
Anglicans, Lutherans, and Reformed are considered mainline Protestant as opposed to other churches including Anabaptists. Anglicanism is related to and derived from or was influenced by Reformed theology.

>orthodox
>big

>>2972895
Middle Eastern Christianity is generally more like the Latin Christians due to reasons of Crusaders, Franks, and Franciscans.

>>2974113
That applies to Levant only though, mainly Lebanon.

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>>2972656
>>2972889
>>2973069
I didn't mention Copts or Monophysites, that's just an example. Even counting Ethiopia they're not necessarily the biggest.

>>2972895
Both of those questions are related. The fact that most Syriacs & Assyrians still speak the supposed language of Jesus and the disciples and have heard the ancient Lord's Prayer in it is just one hint of their closeness to the original. However, Roman Catholics did a lot of harm to the heritage in the Nestorian world, directly in the case of India, indirectly in the M.E. by dividing the community thus making them vulnerable to Muslim aggression and book-burning. All of this is happening right now too, but the eastern Catholic leaders are more defensive and less colonial-esque now. So Western influence varies but it's still not dominant.

>>2973132
Syriac is the language, and it has been more prestigious than Coptic, I think. But if you view it that way, Protestants and R. C.'s count as one (Latins).
Edward Gibbon believed there were more Church of the East ("Nestorians") and Syrian Orthodox ("Jacobites") members than Roman Catholics and Orthodox put together in the Middle Ages. More recent research has probably confirmed that. The problem is they're not just being massacred right now but have been massacred sporadically since the start and continually since the 1840s. The same proportion of them (the Assyrians) were killed in WWI as Armenians. While the number of St. Thomas Christians from India is more representative of the Church of the East's former size, they're also quite divided since the Portuguese, and have been reducing use of Syriac overall.

Anglicans are literally Catholics except their Pope is the Monarch

>>2972648
>Monophysites
>Nestorians
Literal heretics.

>>2975521
I think western Christians have more to be ashamed of than some bygone bishop squabble.

>>2972648
Copts are part of orthodoxy