General Resources

  • A Handbook of Denominations in the United States, F. Mead, rev. by Samuel Hill (Abingdon)

 

Catholicism

  • Harvest Waiting: Reaching Out to the Mexicans,  Esaul & Melissa Salomon  (CPH).
  • Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant: A Doctrinal Comparison of Three Christian Confessions, Gregory L. Jackson (NPH)
  • The Roman Catholics  Patrick Carey (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993).
  • The American Catholic People: Their Beliefs, Practices and Values, George Gallup and Jim Castelli (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987).
  • Roman Catholicism in America Chester Gillis (New York: Columbia, 1999).

 

Reformed

  • Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant: A Doctrinal Comparison of Three Christian Confessions, Gregory L. Jackson (NPH)
  • Introduction to the Reformed Tradition, John Leith (Westminster/John Knox)
  • The Basic Ideas of Calvinism, Henry Meeter (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990).
  • Reformed Theology in America: A History of Modern Development, David Wells (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985).
  • Marburg Revisited, Paul Empie and James McCord, (Augsburg), 1966.
  • Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America, D. Hart and M. Noll eds. (InterVarsity Press)

 

Armenians

  • Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant: A Doctrinal Comparison of Three Christian Confessions, Gregory L. Jackson (NPH)
  • The Baptist Heritage, H. L. McBeth (Broadman and Holman)

 

Pentecostals

  • The Pentecostals and Charismatics: A Confessional Lutheran Evaluation, Arthur J. Clement (NPH)
  • Theological Roots of Pentecostalism, Donald Dayton (Hendrickson Publishers),1987.
  • Pentecostalism, Walter Hollenweger (Hendrickson Publishers), 1997
  • Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, S. Burgess and G. McGee eds. (Zondervan)

 

Dispensationalism

  • Dispensationalism:  Rightly Dividing the People of God?, K. Mathison (Presbyterian and Reformed)
  • Dispensationalism, Charles Ryrie (Moody)
  • Understanding Dispensationalists, Vern Poythress (Grand Rapids: Academie, 1987).

 

Eastern Orthodox

  • Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Daniel Clendenin (Baker/Revell) 1994
  • Eastern Orthodox Theology, Daniel Clendenin (Baker/Revell), 1995
  • The Orthodox Church (Revised), John Meyendorff (revised by Nicholas Losky), (SVS Press)
  • Orthodox Theology: An Introduction, Vladimir Lossky (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary, 1978).

 

Liberal Lutherans

  • What’s Going on Among the Lutherans? A Comparison of Beliefs, Leppien Patsy A and Smith J Kincaid (NPH).
  • WELS and Other Lutherans: Lutheran Church Bodies in the USA, J. Brug, E. Fredrich, A. Schuetze (Milwaukee: Northwestern, 1995).
  •  www.elca.org

 

Others

  • How to Respond to the New Christian Religions, Philip H. Lochhaas (CPH)
  • Harvest Waiting: Reaching Out to the Deaf, Rhoda Rynearson (CPH)
  • Harvest Waiting: Reaching Out to the African Americans, Nikki Rochester (CPH).
  • Harvest Waiting: Reaching Out to the Vietnamese, Minh Chau Ngoc Vo (CPH).