Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States

Bill J. Leonard, PhD, is James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History, the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Jill Y. Crainshaw, PhD, is professor of worship and liturgical theology and associate dean of academic affairs, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Introduction

A Question in Baptist History

Abernathy, Ralph David

Abolitionism

Abortion

Academic Freedom

Adventism

AIDS/HIV

Alien Immersion

Allen, Richard

Alliance of Baptists

Altizer, Thomas

American Baptist Association

Americanism

Antiliquor

Anti-Masonry

Antimissions

Anti-Mormonism

Antinomian Crisis

Anti-Semitism

Arminianism

Artificial Insemination

Aryan Nations

Auburn Affirmation

Auburn Declaration

Azusa Street

Bakker, James (Jim) Orsen

Ballard, Guy

Baptism

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Baptist Bible Fellowship

Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty

Baptist Missionary Association

Baptists

Beecher, Henry Ward

Beecher, Lyman

Berrigans, The

Bible Societies

Bible Translations

Biblical Criticism

Biblical Inerrancy

Bioethical Controversies

Birth Control

Bishop for the Colonies, Church of England

Black Ministerial Protest Leadership

Black Muslims

Black Theology

Blackwell, Antoinette Brown

Bloody Monday

Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, The

Bob Jones University

Bogard, Benjamin Marcus

Borg, Marcus J.

Bowne, Borden Parker

Boyd, Malcom

Branch Daividians

Branham, William Marion

Briggs, Charles Augustus

Broadman Commentary Controversy

Brownson, Orestes Augustus

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchman, Frank N.

Buchmanism

Buddhism, Japanese

Burroughs, Nannie Helen

Bushnell, Horace

Campbell, Thomas and Alexander

Campbell, Will D.

Capital Punishment

Capitalism

Catholic Anti-Intellectualism

Catholics and the Supreme Court

Celibacy, Roman Catholic Priesthood

Charismatic Movement

Chauncy, Charles

Cherry, Frank S.

Children of God

Christian Coalition

Christian Reconstructionism

Christmas, Secular Controversies

Church Growth Movement

Churches of Christ

Civil Religion

Civil Rights

Clarke, William Newton

Cleage, Albert B., Jr. (Agyeman, Jaramogi Abebe

Clergy Sexual Misconduct with Adults

Cloning

Common Grace (Christian Reformed Church)

Communalism

Communion Controversies

Communism

Cone, James Hal

Conscientious Objection

Conservative Baptist Association of America

Conservative Judaism

Conversion

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

Coughlin, Charles E.

Crapsey, Algernon Sidney

Crawford, Tarlton Perry

Creedalism

Criswell, Wallie Amos

Crossan, John Dominic

Crummell, Alexander

Culture Wars

Cummins, George David

Daly, Mary

Darrow, Clarence S.

Davenport, James

Death of God

Deloria, Vine Victor, Jr

Denominations

Deprogramming

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Dispensationalism

Dow, Lorenzo

Drew, Timothy

Dyer, Mary

Ecumenism

Eddy, Mary Baker

Edwards, Jonathan

Electronic Church

Elijah Muhammad

Emerging Church Movement

Episcopal Church, Divisions

Equal Rights Amendment

Eugenics

Evolution Controversy

Exorcism

Faith Healing

Falwell, Jerry

Family Values

Farrakhan, Louis

Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement

Feminism

Finished Work Pentecostalism

Finney, Charles Grandison

Fitzgerald, Edward M.

Focus on the Family

Fosdick Controversy

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Franckean Synod

Free Methodists

Free Will Baptists

Fuller, Margaret

Fundamentalism

Garvey, Marcus

General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

Glossolalia

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Graham, William Franklin

Graves, James Robinson

Great Awakening,First

Great Awakening, Second

Grimke, Angelina Emily

Grimke, Francis J.

Half-Way Covenant

Ham, Mordecai Fowler

Hargis, Billy James

Harper, William Rainey

Heaven's Gate Community

Hecker, Isaac

Hell

High-Low Church

Hinn, Benny

Hodge, Archibald Alexander

Hodge, Charles

Holiness Pentecostal Movement

Home Schooling

Hopkins, Samuel

Hopkinsianism

Hutchinson, Anne

Hymnals and Hymnody

I AM Movement

Immigration

Inclusive Language

Independent Baptists

Indian Missions

Inerrancy Controversy

Infant Baptism

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Intelligent Design

Interfaith Marriage and Religion

Ives, Leon Silliman

Jackson, Jesse Louis

Japanese Internment Camps, World War II

Jarratt, Devereux

Jefferson, Thomas

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jesus Movement

Jesus Seminar

Jews for Jesus

Jim Jones

Jones, Bob and Family

Jones, Samuel Porter

Jordan, Clarence

Kaplan, Mordecai M.

King James Only

King, Martin Luther, Jr

Know-Nothing Party

Ku Klux Klan

La Vey, Anton (Satanism)

Landmarkism

Lane Seminary

Last Temptation of Christ, The

LBGT Rights

Leland, John

Liberalism

Liberation Theology

Local Church Movement (Witness Lee)

LSD, Religious Use

Lubavitch

Lundy, Mary Ann Weese

Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod

Lutheranism

Machen, John Gresham

Madison, James

Malcolm X

Marian Devotion

Marshall, Molly Truman

McCall, Duke Kimbrough

McCune, William Clement

McGiffert, Arthur Cushman

McIntire, Carl

McPherson, Aimee Semple

Medically Assisted Suicide

Mega-Churches

Mennonites

Mercersburg Theology

Merton, Thomas

Message of Genesis, The

Methodism

Metropolitan Community Church

Millennialism

Miller, William

Modernism

Monk, Maria

Moon, Rev. Sun Myung

Moorish Science Temple

Moral Majority

Motion Pictures and Religious Controversies

Muhlenberg, William Augustus

NAACP

Nation of Islam

Nation, Carry

National Council of Churches

Native American Church

Nativism

Nevin, John Williamson

New Age Movement

New Divinity Men

New England Theology

New Lights

New Measures

New Morality

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Norris, Frank J.

Noyes, John Humphrey

Obama, Barak, and Religion

O'Connor, John J.

O'Hair, Madalyn Murray

O'Kelly, James

Old Lights

Old School/New School

Oneida Community

Oneness or "Jesus Only" Pentecostals

Open Membership

Open Theism

Ordination of LBGT Clergy

Palmer, Phoebe

Papal Infallibility

Parham, Charles Fox

Parker, Daniel

Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley

Passion of the Christ, The

Paulist Fathers

Peale, Norman Vincent

Pentecostal Movement

Pietism

Pike, Bishop James A.

Plagiarism and the Church

Political Correctness

Polygamy

Portland Deliverance

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

Predestination

Preus, Jacob A. O., Jr

Primitive Baptists

Princeton Theology

Prosperity Gospel

Pseudo-science

Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst

Racism

Rappites

Rastafarians

Reconstruction Judaism

Reform Judaism

Reformed Episcopal Church

Re-Imagining Conference

Reincarnation

Religion and Education, Public and Private

Religion and Politics

Religious Liberty

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints

Restorationism

Reuther, Rosemary Radford

Revivalism

Rice, John R.

Roberts, Granville Oral

Robertson, Pat

Robinson, Gene

Rushdoony, Rousas John

Sabbatarianism

Salvation Army

Saved by His Life

Schaff, Philip

School Prayer

Scientology

Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson (C.I.)

Scopes Trial

Scopes, John T.

Scott, Walter

Seabury, Samuel

Second Blessing

Secondary Separation

Seminex

Separate Baptists

Separation of Church and State

Serpent Handling

Seventh-Day Adventism

Sex Abuse Scandals, Roman Catholic Church

Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing)

Sheen, Fulton J.

Shunning

Shuttlesworth, Fred Lee

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Skyclad (nudity)

Smith, Gerald L.K.

Smith, Henry Preserved

Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Social Gospel Movement

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Spellman, Francis J.

Spencer, Peter

Spiritualism

Spong, John Shelby

Stagg, Frank

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Stone, Barton

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher

Strang, James Jesse

Strict Calvinism

Sunday, William (Billy) Ashley

Swing, David

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

Tennent, Gilbert

Theistic Evolution

Theodore Parker

Tietjen, John H.

Toy, Crawford Howell

Transcendentalism

Transubstantiation

Trusteeism

Truth, Sojourner (Isabella)

Turner, Henry McNeal

Turner, Nat

Unification Church

Union Theological Seminary, New York

Unitarian/Universalism

Varick, James

Vatican Council I

Vatican Council II

Vesey, Denmark

Vick, George Beauchamp

Virgin Birth

Voluntaryism

War

Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge

Weld, Theodore Dwight

Westboro Baptist Church

White, Andrew D.

Wicca

Williams, Roger

Woman's Christian Temperance Movement

Woman's Rights Convention

Womens Ordination Movement

Women-Church Movement

Woodrow, James

Woolman, John

Worship Wars

Zionism