The 1000-plus A-Z articles include coverage of: * Acts and Monuments * African American Protestantism * Bible Camps and Conference Centers * Book of Common Prayer * Bryan, William Jennings * Bunyan, John * Calvin, John * Civil Rights Movement * Communion Tables * Cromwell, Oliver * Disciples of Christ * Duke University * Education, Theology, Africa * Evangelical Lutheran Church in America * Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship * Geneva Catechism * Glorious Revolution * Homosexuality * Hooker, Richard * Hutterites * Hymns and Hymnals * Iconoclasm * Indonesia * Intervarsity Christian Fellowship * Jews for Jesus * Jowett, Benjamin * Law, William * Lutheranism, Global * Marriage * Mennonites, General Conference * Moravian Church * Mormonism * National Primitive Baptist Convention * Nonconformity * Oxford Movement * Peale, Norman Vincent * Penn, William * Philanthropy * Plural Marriages * Remonstrants * Rescue Missions * Sabbatarianism * Scofield Reference Bible * Sunday School * Televangelism * Theology, Asian * Tillich, Paul * Transubstantiation * Tyndale, William * Unitarian-Universalist Churches * Urban Protestantism * Van der Kemp, Johannes Theodorus * Watts, Isaac * Wesleyanism * Westminster Catechism * World Missionary Conference * Young, Brigham * And many more.
Widely regarded as the leading historian of the Reformation, Hans Hillerbrand is author and editor of numerous works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of theReformation.
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theological matters." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"A comprehensive four-volume reference set... Its coverage is rich
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"A substantial and worthy complement covering one of Christianity's
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"Hans Hillerbrand... has rendered another signal service to the
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