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The Book of Religions

by John Hayward

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Author
Hayward, John, 1781-1869
Title
The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches
Language
English
LoC Class
BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity
Subject
Christian biography
Category
Text
eBook-No.
30323
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30323
Release Date
October 24, 2009
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Contents — Preface. — Index. — Lutherans, Or, The Evangelical Lutheran Church. — Calvinists. — Hopkinsians. — Arians. — Socinians. — Humanitarians. — Sectarians. — Church Government. — Presbyterians. — Cumberland Presbyterians. — Episcopalians.
  2. 2.Historical Notice Of The Church In The United States.
  3. 3.Articles Of Religion. — Cambridge And Saybrook Platforms. — Moravians, Or United Brethren. — Tunkers. — Mennonites, Or Harmless Christians. — Disciples Of Christ; Sometimes Called Campbellites, or Reformers. — Friends, or Quakers. — Shakers, Or The United Society Of Believers. — Reformation. — Reformed Churches.
  4. 4.Reformed Dutch Church.
  5. 5.Reformed German Church. — Restorationists. — Universalists.
  6. 6.Doctrine.
  7. 7.History. — Roman Catholics. — Bereans. — Materialists. — Arminians. — Methodists, Or The Methodist Episcopal Church. — Methodists, Or The Methodist Protestant Church. — Protestants. — Sabellians. — Sandemanians. — Antinomians. — Pelagians. — Pre-Adamites. — Predestinarians. — Orthodox Creeds. — Andover Orthodox Creed. — New Haven Orthodox Creed. — Swedenborgians, Or, The New Jerusalem Church. — Fighting Quakers. — Harmonists. — Dorrelites. — Osgoodites. — Rogerenes. — Whippers. — Wilkinsonians. — Aquarians. — Baxterians. — Miller's Views on the Second Coming of Christ. — Come-Outers. — Jumpers. — Baptists. — Anabaptists. — Free-Will Baptists. — Seventh-Day Baptists, Or Sabbatarians, — Six-Principle Baptists. — Quaker Baptists, Or Keithians. — Pedobaptists. — Anti-Pedobaptists. — Unitarians. — Brownists. — Puritans. — Bourignonists. — Jews. — Indian Religions. — Deists. — Atheists. — Pantheists. — Mahometans. — Simonians. — Pagans. — Satanians. — Abelians, or Abelonians. — Supralapsarians. — Dancers. — Epicureans. — Skeptics. — Wickliffites. — Diggers. — Zuinglians. — Seekers. — Wilhelminians. — Non-Resistants. — Southcotters. — Family Of Love. — Hutchinsonians. — Mormonites, Or The Church Of The Latter-Day Saints. — Daleites. — Emancipators. — Perfectionists. — Waldenses. — Allenites. — Johnsonians. — Donatists. — Se-Baptists. — Re-Anointers. — Tao-Se, or Taou-Tsze. — Quietists. — Knipperdolings. — Mendæans, Mendaites, Mendai Ijahi, Or Disciples Of St. John, That Is, The Baptist. — Muggletonians. — Yezidees, Or Worshippers Of The Devil. — Greek or Russian Church. — Primitive Christians. — Trinitarians. — Millenarians. — Whitefield Calvinistic Methodists. — Nonjurors. — Nonconformists. — Christian Connection. — Puseyites. — Free Communion Baptists. — Transcendentalists. — Augsburg Confession Of Faith. — Armenians. — Primitive Methodists. — Novatians. — Nestorians. — High-Churchmen. — Ancient American Covenant Or Confession Of Faith. — Statistics Of Churches.
  8. 8.Baptists.
  9. 9.Free-Will Baptists.
  10. 10.Seventh-Day Baptists.
  11. 11.Christian Connection.
  12. 12.Calvinistic Congregationalists.
  13. 13.Disciples Of Christ.
  14. 14.Episcopalians.
  15. 15.Friends.
  16. 16.Jews.
  17. 17.Lutherans.
  18. 18.Protestant Methodists.
  19. 19.Methodists.
  20. 20.Presbyterians.
  21. 21.Other Presbyterian Communities.
  22. 22.Reformed Dutch Church.
  23. 23.Roman Catholics.
  24. 24.Swedenborgians.
  25. 25.Unitarians.
  26. 26.Universalists. — Missionary Statistics.
  27. 27.First Protestant Missions.
  28. 28.Moravian Missions.
  29. 29.London Missionary Society.
  30. 30.American Board Of Foreign Missions.
  31. 31.Presbyterian Board Of Foreign Missions.
  32. 32.English Baptist Missionary Society.
  33. 33.American Baptist Board Of Foreign Missions.
  34. 34.Free-Will Baptists.
  35. 35.Episcopal Missions.
  36. 36.Society For Propagating The Gospel Among The Indians And Others.
  37. 37.Wesleyan Or English Methodist Missionary Society.
  38. 38.Missions Of The Methodist Episcopal Church.
  39. 39.Seventh-Day Baptist Missionary Society.
  40. 40.French Protestant Missionary Society.
  41. 41.Netherlands Missionary Society.
  42. 42.Scottish Missionary Society.
  43. 43.German Missionary Society.
  44. 44.Church Of Scotland Missions.
  45. 45.Rhenish Missionary Society.
  46. 46.Missions Of The Roman Catholic Church.
  47. 47.Jews' Missionary Society.
  48. 48.Indians. — Biographical Sketches of the Fathers of the Reformation, Founders of Sects, and of other Distinguished Individuals Mentioned in this Volume.
  49. 49.John Wickliffe.
  50. 50.Jerome of Prague.
  51. 51.John Huss.
  52. 52.John Œcolampadius.
  53. 53.Martin Luther.
  54. 54.Ulriucus Zuinglius.
  55. 55.Martin Bucer.
  56. 56.Philip Melancthon.
  57. 57.Peter Martyr.
  58. 58.Henry Bullinger.
  59. 59.John Knox.
  60. 60.John Calvin.
  61. 61.Jerome Zanchius.
  62. 62.Theodore Beza.
  63. 63.Leo X.
  64. 64.Justin.
  65. 65.Arius.
  66. 66.Athanasius.
  67. 67.Moses Maimonides.
  68. 68.John Agricola.
  69. 69.Michael Servetus.
  70. 70.Simonis Menno.
  71. 71.Francis Xavier.
  72. 72.Faustus Socinus.
  73. 73.Robert Brown.
  74. 74.James Arminius.
  75. 75.Francis Higginson.
  76. 76.Richard Baxter.
  77. 77.George Fox.
  78. 78.William Penn.
  79. 79.Benedict Spinoza.
  80. 80.Ann Lee.
  81. 81.John Glass.
  82. 82.George Keith.
  83. 83.Nicholas Louis, Count Zinzendorf.
  84. 84.William Courtney.
  85. 85.Richard Hooker.
  86. 86.Charles Chauncey.
  87. 87.Roger Williams.
  88. 88.John Clarke.
  89. 89.Ann Hutchinson.
  90. 90.Michael Molinos.
  91. 91.John Wesley.
  92. 92.George Whitefield.
  93. 93.Selina Huntingdon.
  94. 94.Robert Sandeman.
  95. 95.Samuel Hopkins.
  96. 96.Jonathan Mayhew.
  97. 97.Samuel Seabury.
  98. 98.Richard Clarke.
  99. 99.Joseph Priestly.
  100. 100.James Purves.
  101. 101.John Jebb.
  102. 102.John Gaspar Christian Lavater.
  103. 103.John Tillotson.
  104. 104.Isaac Newton.
  105. 105.Charles V.
  106. 106.Francis Bacon.
  107. 107.Matthew Hale.
  108. 108.Princess Elizabeth.
  109. 109.Robert Boyle.
  110. 110.John Locke.
  111. 111.Joseph Addison.
  112. 112.Isaac Watts.
  113. 113.Philip Doddridge.
  114. 114.John Murray.
  115. 115.Elhanan Winchester.
  116. 116.Saint Genevieve.
  117. 117.Gilbert Burnet. — Theological Schools. — Footnotes

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