The Seven Churches Of Asia by P.R. Otokletos - HTML preview

Reference Sources

Holy Scriptures

Tanakh/Old Testament Reference—Jewish Publication Society’s 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English

New Testament—KJV—1611 Version; Source—http://ebible.org/bible/kjv/

Referenced Sources

1 Leonard David, “Planet’s Population Hit 6.5 Billion Saturday,” n.p. [cited 4 March 2006]. Online: http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060224_world_population.html

2 David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson, “International Bulletin of Missionary Research,” January 2006. Online: http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/globalchristianity/resources.php

3 “Major Branches of Religions Ranked by Number of Adherents,” 28 October 2005. Online: http://www.adherents.com/adh_branches.html#Christianity

4a) “Asia Minor,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.crystalinks.com/asiaminor.html;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Anatolia,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Asia_Minor;

c) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Asia Minor,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01782a.htm

5 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Ephesus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus;

b) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Ephesus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05490a.htm;

c) Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Ephesus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/ephesus.htm

6 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Smyrna,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyrna;

b) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Smyrna,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14060b.htm; c) Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Izmir (Smyrna) Turkey,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/izmir.htm

7 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Pergamon,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon;

b) Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Bergama,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/bergama.htm

8 Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Thyatira,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacreddestinations.com/turkey/thyatira-akisar.htm

9 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Sardis,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardis;

b) Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Sardis,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/sardis.htm

10 a) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Philadelphia,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11793a.htm;

b) Sacred Destinations Travel Guide, “Philadelphia (Alasehir), Turkey,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sacred-estinations.com/turkey/philadelphia.htm;

c) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Ala-Shehr,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala-Shehr

11 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Laodicea on the Lycus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laodicea_on_the_Lycus;

b) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Laodicea,”n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08794a.htm;

c) “Laodicea,”n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://www.bibleplaces.com/laodicea.htm;

d) “Laodicea,” n.p.[cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.turizm.net/cities/laodicea/index.html

12 Revelation “The Seven Churches,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.tagnet.org/anotherviewpoint/Revelation/03sor.htm

13 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “John the Evangelist,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_the_Evangelist;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “John the Apostle,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Apostle;

c) New Advent Encyclopedia, “St. John the Evangelist,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08492a.htm

14 a) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Gospel of St. John,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08438a.htm;

b) “The Gospel of John: Introduction, Argument, Outline,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=1328

15 Robert Tippi, The Torah: Key to Human Happiness; “OnlineTorah Lesson #1,” n.p. [cited April 2005]. Online: http://www.maretsoftware.com/torahtips/

16 Robert Tippi, The Torah: Key to Human Happiness; “OnlineTorah Lesson #19,” n.p. [cited April 2005]. Online: http://www.maretsoftware.com/torahtips/

17 Dictionary.com, “acronym,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acronym

18 Notre Dame University, “Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aide”, n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latin.htm

19 Words by William Whitaker, “Latin to English”, n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latin.htm

20 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Heresy,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresies#Early_Christian_heresies;

b) The Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, “Heresies,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.carm.org/heresy.htm

21 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Marcion of Sinope,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcion;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Marcionism,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism;

c) Religion Facts, “Marcion,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/people/marcion.htm

22 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Polycrates of Ephesus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrates_of_Ephesus;

b)”Polycrates of Ephesus,” [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.cogwriter.com/polycrates.htm

23 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Council of Nicaea attempts to standardize Easter,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartodeciman;

b) “Polycrates of Ephesus,”[cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.cogwriter.com/polycrates.htm

24 Dictionary.com, “kindred,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kindred

25 Dictionary.com, “wail,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wail

26 Dictionary.com, “borne,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/borne

27 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Nicolaitanes,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaitanes

28 Bruce DeLay, “THE DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLAITANES,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.Church.sierra-vista.az.us/Church/tst/nicolaitanes.htm

29 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Pope Victor I,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Victor_I

30 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Religion in ancient Rome,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_paganism;

b) “Roman Religion,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/religion.html

31 Dictionary.com, “blasphemy,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blasphemy

32 Dictionary.com, “synagogue,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/synagogue

33 Dictionary.com, “devil,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/devil

34 Vincent Bridges, The Gnostic Science of Alchemy- Part I—from its origins in Alexandria to the Black Death–Chapter 8, n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.sangraal.com/library/gsa8.html

35 Medieval Sourcebook, “Diocletian: Edicts Against The Christians,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/persec1.html

36 a) “‘Elagabalus’ Varius Avitus Bassianus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.romanempire. net/decline/elagabalus-index.html;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Elagabalus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

37 W.M. Ramsey, “The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://philologos.org/__eb-lttsc/chap20.htm

38 “Pergamon—Pergamum,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.latter-rain.com/escha/pergam.htm

39 “Pergamon,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://web.express56.com/~bromar/html/Pergamon.html

40 William Barker, “Lares and Penates of Cilicia,” 1853, p.232)

41 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Saint Antipas,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Antipas

42 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Theodosius I,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Theodosius;

b) New Advent Encyclopedia, “Theodosius I,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14577d.htm;

c) Ancient / Classical History, “Theodosius I,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062601a.htm

43 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Pope,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papacy

44 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Papal States,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_states

45 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Donatist,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatist;

b) African Christianity, Western North Africa–Donatism, n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: ttp://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNADonatism.html

46 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “The Rule of the Harlots,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornocracy

47 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Second Council of Nicaea,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea

48 Dictionary.com, “worship,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/worship

49 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Pontifex Maximus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus

50 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Constantinople,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Byzantine Empire,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

51 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Fourth Crusade,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade

52 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Pope,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope

53 a)”The Holy Roman Empire,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/hre.htm;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Holy Roman Empire,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

54 a) Christian missions history, “Early Roman Catholic missions to the nations, 1200–1600ad,” n.p.[cited January 2006]. Online: http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/1200.htm;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Mendicant Orders,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendicant_order

55 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Martin Luther,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther

56 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Black Death,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_death;

b) “The Black Death: Bubonic Plague,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html

57 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Protestant Reformation,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation

58 a) “Sardis,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://home.clara.net/arlev/sardis.htm;

b) Robert L. Thomas, “Sardis: The Church of Complacency,” www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/Biblical-prophecy/BP3W0300.pdf

59 a) Gerhard Rempel, “The Age of Enlightenment” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/enlightenment.html;

b) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “The Age of Enlightenment,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment;

60 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Society of Jesus,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_jesus

61 Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Protestantism,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Church

62 William Greene, “The Ascendance of “Messianic Judaism” in the Context of “Hebrew Christianity”, n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://mcu.edu/papers/mess_jud.htm

63 a) Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, “Messianic Judaism,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism;

b) “BASICS OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://www.messianic.com/articles/basics.htm;

c) William Greene, “The Ascendance of Messianic Judaism in the Context of Hebrew Christianity” ,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http:// http://mcu.edu/papers/mess_jud.htm

64 Dictionary.com, “lukewarm,” n.p. [cited January 2006]. Online: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lukewarm

* * * * * * *