The Encyclopedia of Protestantism

4143 Pages·2003·20.28 MB·English

by  Hans J. Hillerbrand

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PROTESTANTISM
Editorial Board
Martin Greschat Justus-Liebig-University (Germany)
L.Gregory Jones Duke University, Durham, N.C.
David Martin University of Lancaster (UK)
Hugh McLeod University of Birmingham (UK)
Grant Wacker Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Andrew F.Walls Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies University of Aberdeen
(Scotland)
Assistant Editor
James H.Thrall Duke University, Durham, N.C.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PROTESTANTISM
VOLUME 1
A–C
HANS J.HILLERBRAND
EDITOR

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Encyclopedia of Protestantism/Hans J.Hillerbrand, editor. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92472-3 (set) 1. Protestantism—
Encyclopedias. I. Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. BX4811.3.E53 2003 280′.4′03–dc21 2003011582
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Contents

A to Z List of Articles vi
Thematic List of Articles xxxiii
Preface lviii

Volume 1, Entries A–C 1
Volume 2, Entries D–K
Volume 3, Entries L–R
Volume 4, Entries S–Z

Appendix
List of Contributors
Index

Entry List A–Z
A
Abortion
Absolutism
Acts and Monuments
Adams, Hannah
Adiaphora
Advent Christian Church
Aesthetics
Africa
African American Protestantism
African Instituted Churches
African Methodist Episcopal Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
African Theology
Agricola, Michael
All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists
Allen, Richard
Allen, Roland
Alline, Henry
Altars
Althusius, Johannes
Amana
American Baptist Churches
American Bible Society
American Bible Union
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Colonization Society
American Friends Service Committee
American Lutheran Church
American Missionary Association
American Society of Church History
American Unitarian Association
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
Ames, William
Amish
Amissah, Samuel Hanson
Amsdorf, Nikolaus von
Anabaptism
Anderson, Rufus
Andrewes, Lancelot
Andrews, Charles Freer
Anglican Chant
Anglicanism
Anglo-Catholicism
Antichrist
Antinomianism
Anti-Semitism
Antitrinitarianism
Apocalypticism
Architecture, Church
Arminianism
Arminius, Jacobus
Arndt, Johann
Arnold, Eberhard
Arnold, Thomas
Art
Asbury, Francis
Asceticism
Asian Theology
Asian-American Protestantism
Assemblies of God
Atonement
Attoh-Ahuma, Samuel Richard Brew
Augsburg Confession
Augsburg Confession, Apology of the
Augsburg Interim
Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
Australia
Authority
Awakenings
Azariah, Vedayagam Samuel
Azusa Street Revival
B
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Backus, Isaac
Bacon, Francis
Baëta, Christian Goncalves Kwame
Baillie, John
Baltimore Conference
Baptism
Baptist Bible Union
Baptist Family of Churches
Baptist General Conference
Baptist Missions
Baptists
Baptists, Europe
Baptists, Global
Baptists, United States
Baptist World Alliance
Barmen Declaration
Barnes, Robert
Barth, Heinrich
Barth, Karl
Basel Mission
Batak Protestant Christian Church of Indonesia
Baumgarten, Otto
Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob
Baur, Ferdinand Christian
Baxter, Richard
Bayle, Pierre
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beecher, Lyman
Belgic Confession of 1561
Bell, George Kennedy Allen
Bengel, Johann Albrecht
Bennett, John Coleman
Bentham, Jeremy
Bentley, Richard
Berggrav, Eivind
Berkeley, George
Berkhof, Hendrikus
Best Sellers in America, Religious
Beza, Theodore
Bible
Bible and Literature
Bible Camps and Conference Centers
Bible Colleges and Institutes
Bible Conferences
Bible, King James Version
Bible Societies
Bible Translation
Biblical Inerrancy
Bill of Rights
Bishop and Episcopacy
Black Methodists
Black Theology
Blair, James
Blake, Eugene Carson
Blake, William
Bliss, Philip Paul
Blomfield, Charles
Blount, Charles
Blumhardt, Christoph Friedrich
Bodelschwingh, Friedrich Christian Carl von
Boehme, Jakob
Boesak, Alan Aubrey
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Concord
Booth, Catherine
Booth, Joseph
Booth, William
Bosch, David Jacobus
Boucher, Jonathan
Boudinot, Elias
Bourne, Hugh
Boyle, Robert
Bradstreet, Anne
Braght, Tieleman Jansz van
Brainerd, David
Branch Davidians
Bray, Thomas
Brazil
Breeches Bible
Brent, Charles
Brenz, Johannes
Brethren in Christ
Brethren, Church of the
British and Foreign Bible Society
British Council of Churches
Britten, Edward Benjamin
Broad Church
Brooks, Phillips
Browne, Robert
Browning, Robert
Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Brunner, Emil
Bryan, William Jennings
Bucer, Martin