Sociological confirmation of the heterogeneity of congregations
within a single denomination is found in the
various articles of James D. Davidson listed in chapter 2, n. 22, of this volume; in Donald L. Metz, New Congregations: Security and Mission in Conflict (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967), 25; and in William H. Anderson, «The Local Congregation as a
Subculture,» Social Compass 18 (1971): 287 - 91.