A Christian or Christianity-oriented new religious movement can be a "sect" or "cult" with a doctrine based on Christian scripture or Christian dogma, but deviating from mainstream Christianity by either additional elements. These minority Christian denominations fall outside the division of Christianity into the three major branches of Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Mainline Protestantism.

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  • A Christian or Christianity-oriented new religious movement can be a "sect" or "cult" with a doctrine based on Christian scripture or Christian dogma, but deviating from mainstream Christianity by either additional elements. These minority Christian denominations fall outside the division of Christianity into the three major branches of Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Mainline Protestantism. These sects or denominations often imply that mainstream Christianity has fallen into a Great Apostasy. Numerous such movements emerged during the 19th century in Russian Spiritual Christianity and in the Anglo-Saxon Great Awakenings and Restoration Movement, Christian Science. More recent generations of Christianity oriented new religious movements include the Jesus movement of later 20th century counterculture, with offshoots such as the Children of God; Neo-evangelicalism, Charismatic Christianity and Pentecostalism such as Christ Gospel Churches International and groups of the Independent Sacramental Movement such as The Order of Christ Sophia. Individual movements within these groupings typically emerge surrounding a charismatic leader figure, such as Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Ikurō Teshima's Makuya, Vissarion's Church of the Last Testament, or Uriella's Fiat Lux, and they often dissolve or fragment following the leader's death. Founders will often add to basic Christian dogma via claims of direct revelation, or in some cases even of identity with Christ.
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  • A Christian or Christianity-oriented new religious movement can be a "sect" or "cult" with a doctrine based on Christian scripture or Christian dogma, but deviating from mainstream Christianity by either additional elements. These minority Christian denominations fall outside the division of Christianity into the three major branches of Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Mainline Protestantism.
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