Beginnings: The Emergence of Christianity and Denominations
1. Daniel G. Reid et al., eds., Dictionary of Christianity in America, (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990), p. 350.
2. Reid et al., Dictionary of Christianity in America, p. 350.
3. Louis XIV, king of France, quoted in Frank S. Mead and Samuel S. Hill, Handbook of Denominations in the United States (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001), p. 19.
4. J.E. Wood, “Separation of Church and State,” in Reid et al., Dictionary of Christianity in America, p. 268.
5. Cited in Wood, “Separation of Church and State,” p. 267.
6. Mead and Hill, Handbook of Denominations in the United States, p. 22.
7. Carmen Renee Berry, The Unauthorized Guide to Choosing a Church (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2003), p. 46.
8. Robert McAfee, The Spirit of Protestantism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), p. 4.
9. See my book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), pp. 19-35.
10. See Reid et al., Dictionary of Christianity in America, p. 351; Mead and Hill, Handbook of Denominations in the United States, p. 16.
Chapter 1: Adventist Churches
1. Cited in John Gerstner, The Theology of the Major Sects (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1960), p. 21.
2. Hank Hanegraaff explains, “Evangelicals have often been divided as to how Adventism should be classified. Adventism has long borne the stigma of being called a cult. Since Seventh-day Adventism does officially accept the foundational doctrines of historic Christianity (the inspiration and authority of the Bible, the Trinity, Christ’s true deity, His bodily resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith), we do not believe that it should be classified as a cult.” See Hank Hanegraaff, “Seventh-day Adventism: Christian or Cultic?” Perspective CP0602, Christian Research Institute, www.equip.org/free/CP0602.htm.
1. Robert G. Torbet, A History of Baptists (Chicago: The Judson Press, 1950), p. 59.
2. Torbet, A History of Baptists, p. 60.
3. Torbet, A History of Baptists, p. 62.
4. Torbet, A History of Baptists, pp. 60-61.
Chapter 4: Catholic Churches
1. Austin Flannery, “The People of God,” in Documents of Vatican II, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), pp. 267-68.
2. Cited in Karl Rahner, ed., Teaching of the Catholic Church (Staten Island: Albar, 1967), p. 203.
3. Rahner, Teaching of the Catholic Church, p. 207.
4. Catechism of the Catholic Church (New York: Doubleday, 1994), p. 249.
5. Catechism of the Catholic Church, p. 292.
6. Council of Trent, session 22, “Teachings and Canons of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,” canon 1.
Chapter 8: Friends (Quaker) Churches
1. Cited in J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of American Religions (Detroit: Gale Research, 1999), p. 91.
Chapter 12: Mennonite Churches
1. J.C. Wenger, tr., The Dordrecht Confession of Faith, www.bibleviews.com/Dordrecht.html.
Chapter 13: Methodist Churches
1. Cited in J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of American Religions, 6th ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1999), p. 71.
Chapter 15: Pentecostal Churches
1. “The Founder & Church History,” Church of God in Christ, www.cogic.org/our-foundation/the-founder-church-history/.
Postscript: Unity in Diversity
1. J.C. Ryle, Holiness (Moscow, ID: Charles Nolan, 2001), p. xxiii.
2. Ryle, Holiness, p. xv.
3. J.I. Packer, Serving the People of God (Great Britain: Paternoster Press, 1998), p. 23.