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The National Period of American Church History |
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Religious Change in New England: Theological Divisions within Congregationalism |
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Congregationalism in America |
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Developments within Nineteenth-Century American Theology |
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The History of Theological Change in New England |
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The Rise of Unitarianism in America |
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The History of Unitarianism in America |
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Orthodoxy, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism: A Comparison |
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The Development of New England Theology |
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The Second Great Awakening, the Rise of Seminaries, and the Protestant Missionary Movement |
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The Eastern Phase of the Second Great Awakening: The Colleges |
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The Rural Phase of the Second Great Awakening: Camp Meetings |
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History of the Restoration Movement (The Christian Church) |
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Changes in Gospel Preaching: The Great Awakenings Compared |
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The Rise of Theological Seminaries |
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The Birth of the Modern Missions Movement |
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Charles Finney and Finneyism |
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Charles Finney: Shaper of American Revivalism |
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Charles Finney and the Death of Christ: A Legal Warning |
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Finney and Salvation: The Sinner's Role and the Preacher's Task |
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The Rise of Utopian Societies and the Classic American Cults |
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The Nineteenth Century: Rise of the Cults |
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The Leaders and Shapers of Mormonism |
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The Theology of Mormonism |
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The Rise of the Seventh-Day Adventist Movement |
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The Theology of Seventh-Day Adventism |
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The Theology of Christian Science |
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The Theology of Jehovah's Witnesses |
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The Antebellum and Civil War Eras |
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The Presbyterian Schism of 1837: The New School and the Old School |
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The Influence of the Layman's Prayer Revival of 1858 |
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National Contradiction: Equal but Inferior |
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Three American Revolutions: The Quest for Equality |
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The Baptists, Slavery, and Division |
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The Presbyterians, Slavery, and Division |
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The Methodists, Slavery, and Division |
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The Modern Period of American Church History |
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The Background: The Rise of Nineteenth-Century European Liberalism |
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The Rise of the Sciences: The Root of Change in Religious Understanding |
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The Biblical Support for the Medieval, Static Theory of the Universe |
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Hegel and the History of Civilization |
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Hegel and the Theory of Progress |
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Auguste Comte: An Example of Progressive Thought |
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The Enlightenment and Traditional Religion: Schleiermacher's Attempt to Preserve True Religion |
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Albrecht Ritschl: Liberalism and the Reduction of Christianity to Ethics |
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Liberalism and the History of Religions School |
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The Pioneers of the Theory of Evolution |
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The Rise of American Liberalism: The ``New Theology'' |
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Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century England |
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The Historical Sources of Nineteenth-Century American Liberalism |
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The Assumptions of ``New Theology'' |
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The ``New Theology'' and the Bible |
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The History of the American Liberal Tradition |
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Liberal Theology and Evangelical Theology: A Comparison |
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Denominational Strife and the Rise of Evangelicalism (1880--1930) |
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The History of American Evangelicalism |
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The Origin of the Bible Institutes in America |
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The Northern Baptists and the Fundamentalist Movement |
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The Course of Theological Development within Northern Presbyterianism |
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Northern Presbyterians and the Conflict at Princeton |
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The Northern Presbyterians and the Missions Controversy |
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Evangelicalism's Triumph, Evangelicalism Today (1930--Present) |
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The Realignment of Evangelicalism in the 1930s and 1940s |
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The Restructuring of Evangelicalism: The Building of a New Coalition |
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The Presbyterian Separatist Movement |
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The Northern Baptist Separatist Movement |
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Baptist Separatism: The Bible Baptist Fellowship |
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The Methodist Separatist Movement |
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The Emergence of Interdenominational, Cooperative, Separatist Organizations |
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The Origins of the Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
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The Fracturing of the Evangelical Consensus: The Rise of New Evangelicalism |
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The American Liberal Impulse in the Twentieth Century |
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The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Theology in American |
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The Progress of Religious Liberal Thought in America |
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Shapers of Religious Liberal Thought |
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Analysis of Religious Liberal Thought |
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The Rise of Process Theology: A Denial of Traditional Theism |
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The Ecumenical Movement in America |
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The History of the World Council of Churches |
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The History of the American Ecumenical Movement |
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Controversies within Mainline Denominations and Their Current State |
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The Southern Baptist Convention and the Fundamentalist Controversy |
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The Political Structure within the Southern Baptist Convention |
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The Northern Baptist Convention Today |
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The History of the Presbyterian Church in America |
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The Presbyterian Church in America Today |
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The Presbyterian Church, USA |
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The History of the Methodist Church (1830--1939) |
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The Creation of the United Methodist Church |
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The History of Congregationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Congregational Christian Churches |
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The United Church of Christ |
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The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
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The History of the Episcopal Church in the USA |
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Polarization within the Episcopal Church, USA |
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Numerical Decline in the Mainline Churches |
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Select Important Evangelical Groups in America Today |
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The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod |
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The Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
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The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America |
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The Baptist General Conference |
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The National Association of Free Will Baptists |
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The Reformed Church of America |
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The Christian Reformed Church |
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The Evangelical Covenant Church |
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The Evangelical Free Church of America |
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The Free Methodist Church of North America |
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The State of Roman Catholicism in America |
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The Roman Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century: The Initial Struggle to Maintain Orthodoxy |
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The Roman Catholic Church and the Ongoing Struggle to Preserve Orthodoxy |
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The Popes Since Vatican I |
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The African-American Church |
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The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement |
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The Phases of the Modern Civil Rights Movement |
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The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
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The African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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The Christian Methodist Church |
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The Major African-American Baptist Denominations in America |
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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC): Its History |
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The Charismatic Movements in America |
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The History of the Charismatic Movements in America |
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The Charismatic Movements: Shifting Emphases |
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The Holiness Movement's Emergence from Methodism |
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Holiness Theology: John Wesley and Sanctification |
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The Essence of Holiness Teaching |
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The Rise and Development of Pentecostalism |
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The Church of the Nazarene: A Church in the Holiness Tradition |
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The International Pentecostal Holiness Church: A Holiness Church Turned Pentecostal |
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The History of the Church of God Movement |
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David Wesley Myland and the Terminology of Classical Pentecostalism |
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Pioneers of Early Pentecostalism |
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The Classical Pentecostal View of Sanctification |
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The ``Finished Work'' Theory of Pentecostal Sanctification and the Assemblies of God |
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The Oneness Controversy and the United Pentecostal Church, International |
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Shifting Perspectives on Classical Pentecostalism: The Evangelical Embrace |
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The Charismatic Renewalist Movement |
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The Baptism of the Spirit and Charismatic Renewalism |
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John Wimber, the Vineyard Movement, and Spiritual Effectiveness |
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Changing Emphases within the Vineyard Movement |
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The Postmodern Period of American Church History |
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The Crisis in American Evangelicalism: A Movement Caught in Change |
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The Church Growth Movement |
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Postmodernism and Authority |
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The Symbol of Postmodernism |
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Postmodernity and the ``Self'' |
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The Relationship of Secular Humanism to New Age Philosophy |
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Secular Humanism and New Age Teachings Compared |
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The Premises and Denials of New Age Teaching |
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Modern and Postmodern Views of Truth |
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Alvin Toffler and the Future |
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