Nelson's Guide to Denominations: The Primary Resource for Understanding and Navigating America's Christian Organizations

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The Complete Guide to American Denominations and Christian Organizations. Nelson's Guide to Denominations provides essential data on 800+ Protestant and Catholic churches operating in the United States and Canada, plus ecumenical and cooperative associations and parachurch organizations. Every entry reports the name of the group, a brief history, key leaders or a contact person, address, email and/or website, membership stats, unique features, world mission affiliates, and sidebars on special ministry ...

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The Complete Guide to American Denominations and Christian Organizations. Nelson's Guide to Denominations provides essential data on 800+ Protestant and Catholic churches operating in the United States and Canada, plus ecumenical and cooperative associations and parachurch organizations. Every entry reports the name of the group, a brief history, key leaders or a contact person, address, email and/or website, membership stats, unique features, world mission affiliates, and sidebars on special ministry initiatives. The guide also includes a section on trends and prospects for the church in North America and a symposium on the Bible in America.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781418501969
  • Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/3/2007
  • Pages: 416
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents


Preface     5
The Bible Today     19
Introduction-The Bible: Our Authority   J. Gordon Melton     19
The Bible in Evangelical Faith and Life   Samuel J. Mikolaski     29
Can We Trust the Bible?   Michael H. Reynolds     49
Gender, Reform, and Evangelical Feminism   Mimi Haddad     71
Text and Context: Approaching Scripture as an African American Woman Minister and Scholar   Mozella G. Mitchell     91
The Bible Through Many Eyes: How Jews, Muslims, and Hindus Read the Bible   James C. Browning     111
The Church in North America-Trends and Prospects   Todd M. Johnson     129
The Changing Face of American Religion, a.d. 1900-2050     129
Charts, Graphs, Statistics     130
A Guide to America's Christian Churches     143
Introduction: Making Sense of Christian Pluralism     145
Ancient Catholic and Orthodox Churches     157
The Reformation Churches of the Sixteenth Century     217
Puritanism     268
Evangelical Pietism     315
Nineteenth-Century Free Churches     340
Contemporary Evangelical Movements     405
Parachurch Organizations     509
Christian Cooperative Organizations     534
Educational Institutions for Ministerial Training     551
Church-related and independent post-secondary Christian colleges, universities, seminaries, and Bible schools     552
Endnotes     583
Index     591
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