Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Exploratory Study
Analyses of the fundamentalist-modernist controversies and of church-sect typologies suggest that the theological position of religious institutions may be viewed sociologically as an independent variable which is common to both theoretical orientations. A study of sixty-six Protestant churches in a...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1970]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1970, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-58 |
| Further subjects: | B
Baptists
B Conservatism B Churches B Protestant Theology B Typological theology B Liberalism |
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| Summary: | Analyses of the fundamentalist-modernist controversies and of church-sect typologies suggest that the theological position of religious institutions may be viewed sociologically as an independent variable which is common to both theoretical orientations. A study of sixty-six Protestant churches in a midwestern American city reveals interesting relationships between self-classified theological position and several institutional characteristics. These data point to the conclusion that theological position is a useful indicator of many important institutional characteristics and may be a key variable for locating religious bodies on the multidimensional church-sect continuum. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1385153 |