THERANS ; CONGREGATIONALISM ; METHODISM ; etc.
such a vast subject we can here refer to only Bibliography.-On such a vast subject we can here refer to only a few of those books which give guidance for further study and are typical of each of its main lines. For Roman Catholicism: P. Batiffol, L'Eglise naissante et le catholicisme (4th ed., 19o9) ; Wilhelm and Scannell, Manual of Catholic Theology (1899) ; C. S. Devas, The Key to the World's Progress (1906) ; and many articles in the Catholic Encyclopaedia. For Anglicanism: Lux Mundi (189o) ; Gore, Orders and Unity (1909) ; The Reconstruction of Belief (1927) ; Darwell Stone, The Church, its Ministry and Authority (1902) ; A. C. Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester), The Church of England (1927). For the Free Churches: Towards Reunion, by Church of England and Free Church writers (1919) ; G. K. A. Bell, Documents on Christian Unity (1924) ; G. K. A. Bell and W. Robertson (ed. by), The Church of England and the Free Churches (1925) ; A. E. Garvie, art. "Christian ity" in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (for liberal Evangelicalism) ; J. E. Carpenter (ed. by), Freedom and Truth (1925), for Unitarian Christianity (see also James Drummond, Via, Veritas, Vita or Christianity in its simplest and most intelligible form; Hibbert Lectures, 1894 ; and Charles Beard, The Reformation in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge: Hibbert Lectures, 1883).
For the principles of Protestantism as a Religion: A. Ritschl, Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation (Eng. trans., 19oo), most important for its present influence (for a critical estimate, Garvie, The Ritschlian Theology, 1897) ; E. Troeltsch, Die Absolutheit des Christenthums (1902) ; W. Hermann, Communion of the Christian with God (Eng. trans., 1895), a discussion in the spirit of Luther; A. Sabatier, Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit (Eng. trans., 1904). On primitive Christianity, see Harnack, Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries (Eng. trans., 1904) ; Wernle, Beginnings of Christianity (Eng. trans., 1904) ; Weiz sacker, The Apostolic Age (Eng. trans., 1897) ; Hatch, Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages on the Christian Church (Hibbert Lectures, 1888). (G. W. KN.; S. H. M.)
