The Encyclopedia of Protestantism: Volume 2 D–K
References and Further Reading
Bedell, George T. “Spiritual Unity Not Organic Unity,” in The History of the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance…., ed. by Philip Schaff and S.Irenaeus Prime. New York, 1874.
Butler, Jon. Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1580–1730. Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 1978.
Greeley, Andrew. The Denominational Society: A Sociological Approach to Religious America. Glenview, IL: Scot, Forseman, 1972.
Martin, David A. “”The Denomination.” The British Journal of Sociology 13 no. 1 (1962):1–14.
Moberg, David O. The Church as a Social Institution: The Sociology of American Religion. 2nd ed.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1984.
Mullin, Robert Bruce, and Russell E.Richey, eds. Reimagining Denominationalism: Interpretive Essays. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Newman, William M., and Peter L.Halvorson. Atlas of Amer-ican Religion: The Denominational Era, 1776–1990. Walnut Creek, CA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Niebuhr, H.Richard. The Social Sources of Denominationalism. New York: Henry Holt, 1929.
Richey, Russell E., ed. Denominationalism. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1977.
Scherer, Ross, P. American Denominational Organization: A Sociological View. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1980.
Swatos, William H., Jr. Into Denominationalism: The Anglican Metamorphasis. Storrs, CT: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1979.
Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
ROBERT BRUCE MULLIN
The leaders of the sixteenth-century Protestant REFORMATION derived their concept of the Devil from the BIBLE and from early Christian writers, especially Augustine of Hippo (354–420), but current Protestant concepts range from the view that the Devil does not exist at all through the view that he exists as a metaphor of human evil to the view that he is a real being with enormous powers to tempt and disrupt humans, nations, and the whole earth. Traditional Protestant concepts of the Devil also borrowed from, and added to, concepts of evil in AFRICA, Asia, and elsewhere.
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