Rererences 1. W. M. Ramsay,
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia, reprint of the 1904 ed.(Grand Rapids, Mich.:Baker Book House, 1979), p. 183.(Many comments about the seven churches in this section are based on this work.)
2. Irenaeus,
Against Heresies, 1.26;ANF 1:352.
3.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp, in
The Apostolic Fathers; LCC 2: 312-345.
4. Ramsay.
Seven Churches, pp. 396, 397.
5. Adapted from Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds,
Human Development(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978), p. 346.
6. See
Ibid, p. 344.
7. William Warren Sweet,
The Story of Religion in America, rev. and enl(ed. New York:Harper & Brother, 1950), pp. 6, 7.
8. Dean R. Hoge,
“National Contextual Factors Influencing Church Trends,” in Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen, eds.,
Understanding Church Growth and Decline:1950-1978(New York:The Pilgrim Press, 1979), pp. 96, 97.
9. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
“There Is a Moral Dimension,” The Reader's Digest, November 1977, pp. 153, 154.
10. Sir Isaac Newton,
Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John(London:1773), pp. 285-293. But he ends the seven churches - and the seven seals- around A.D, 400.
11. Martin Luther,
Table Talk, Theodore G. Tappert, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Helmut T. Lehmann, eds.,
Luther's Works, American ed., 55 vols.(Philadelphia:Fortress Press, 1955-), 54:296.
12. Owen Chadwick,
The Reformation, The Pelican History of the Church, vol. 3(Grand Rapids, Mich.:Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964), pp. 21, 11.
13. See H. J. Schroeder, O.P., trans,
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent(St. Louis:B. Hereder Book Co., 1941), pp. 29-46.
14. Williston Walker,
A History of the Christian Church, rev. ed.(New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959), p. 379. 1
15. Steven Ozment,
The Age of Reform 1250-1550:An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), p. 8.
16. Walker,
History, p. 396. A lower but still heartbreaking estimate puts the deaths at 8 million out of 18 million. See James Hastings Nichols,
History of Christianity 1650-1950(New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1956), p. 42.
17. Lars P. Qualben,
A History of the Christian Church, rev. and enl. ed.(New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1958), p. 357.
18. Walker,
History, p. 390.
19.
Ibidi, p. 454.
20. Sydney E. Ahlstrom,
A Religious History of the American People(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), p. 424.
21. Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar Holmes McNeal, eds.,
A Source Book for Medieval History(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, 1933), pp. 158, 159.
22. Ralph Carmichael. Copyright 1958 by Sacred Songs, a division of Word, Inc. Used by permission,
23. In Roland H. Bainton,
Here I Stand:A Life of Martin Luther(New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1950), p. 295..
24. Adapted from
“The Strange Case of the Indomitable Snowman,” American Bible Society Record, August-September, 1978, pp. 20-22.