Religion Charting the History of Christianity (and Judaism) Video Series. Now Updated With Islam!

[Husky_Khan]

So through the channel Vlogging Through History I came upon (or rather re-encountered) the Youtube Channel Useful Charts. Back when I used to watch some Useful Charts videos it was on the 'family tree/genealogy' of famous lines of royalty or Greek mythology or something but now he's charting a lot of interesting new stuff.

Over the past few months or so he's tackled topics relating to Christianity pretty heavily with a few different video series.

The most interesting one to me so far (and the latest one) is this eight video series Christian Denominations Family Tree.



Episode 1: Christian Origins & Early Church Schisms
Episode 2: Roman Catholics & Eastern Orthodox
Episode 3: Anglicans, Lutherans & Reformed
Episode 4: Anabaptists & Quakers
Episode 5: Baptists & Methodists
Episode 6: Mormons, Adventists & Jehovah's Witnesses
Episode 7: Pentecostals & Charismatics
Episode 8: Miscellaneous Groups (covers Univeralism, LGBTQIA+ as well as Chinese, Korean, African, and various Latin American denominations etc)

Each of these episodes by the way covers A LOT MORE then just the denominations mentioned in the title and actually has a bit of a 'generational' passage of time IMHO as Christianity develops.

He's also done a seven video series on 'Who Wrote the Bible'



Episode 1: The Torah
Episode 2: The Prophets
Episode 3: The Writings
Episode 4: The Apocrypha
The First Four Episodes Pertain to the Jewish Bible or Christian Old Testament
Episode 5: The Gospels and Acts
Episode 6: The Epistles
Episode 7: Daniel & Revelation

He's also done a six video series on 'Bible Genealogy.' This is his oldest series of the three.



Episode 1: Which Bible Characters are Historical?
Episode 2: From Adam to David
Episode 3: Kings of Israel and Judah
Episode 4: Meccabees & King Herod Family Tree
Episode 5: Genealogy of Jesus
Episode 6: Responding to Comments (On this series)
He also recently did a video titled Biblical Family Tree: From Adam & Eve to Roman Times

He's done many more religious videos but for other ones pertaining to Christianity and thus this topic here are two more standalone videos.

English Bible Translations Family Tree



And of course:

Bible Chronology



Just FYI the YouTuber who made these videos, Matt Baker was a member of the non-Nicene Adventist Sect Church of God growing up, then became an atheist, before converting to Judaism.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Matt Baker of Useful Charts creating a similar tree chart mapping out the various branches of Judaism and it's history.



Along with this is some other commentary such as contrasting Jewish beliefs with Christian ones, especially in regards to viewing the 'Old Testament.'

 

[Husky_Khan]

Useful Charts has released several videos regarding Islam over the past several months, including one very recently.

A mapping of the various Islamic Denominations, including the various Sunni and Shia denominations, as well as covering things like Sufi Islam, Nation of Islam, Alawites, Bahai, Imadis and Ahmadis etc.



Also a Family Tree style chart of the Islamic Prophets (many sects have the number at 25 Prophets) starting with the Biblical Adam (Of Adam and Hawa fame). One interesting thing is he discusses some of the theological differences between Islamic and Judeo-Christians interpretation of various characters in the Old Testament such as Noah, Jacob, Moses and Lot etc.



And a series of older videos detailing the Family Tree of Muhammad (taken from the Asian Royal Family Tree chart).



And of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates (done in collaboration with the Muslim YouTuber Al Muqaddimah.



And last but not least... maybe... a chart detailing the originally political divide between Shia and Sunni Islam and a family tree style chart regarding Shia Imams.