Reviving The Ancient Faith

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Reviving The Ancient Faith

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Author : Richard T. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: ACU Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01

Reviving The Ancient Faith written by Richard T. Hughes and has been published by ACU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Religion categories.

A history of the churches of Christ in America with emphasis on who they are and why. Fourteen chapters with pictures of Restoration leaders from both the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Encyclopedia Of The Stone Campbell Movement

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Author : Douglas A. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2004

The Encyclopedia Of The Stone Campbell Movement written by Douglas A. Foster and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.

"Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theological treatment of this complex, vibrant global communion. Written by more than 300 contributors, this major reference work contains over 700 original articles covering all of the significant individuals, events, places, and theological tenets that have shaped the Movement. Much more than simply a historical dictionary, this volume also constitutes an interpretive work reflecting historical consensus among Stone-Campbell scholars, even as it attempts to present a fair, representative picture of the rich heritage that is the Stone-Campbell Movement."--BOOK JACKET.

A Burden Too Heavy

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Author : Paul Alan Smith
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2025-05-26

A Burden Too Heavy written by Paul Alan Smith and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-26 with Religion categories.

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “confession”? Is confession a dreary command to be slavishly followed or a liberating grace to cherish? How much do you know about your faith and why you believe what you believe? Consider this your invitation to examine your faith and experience the spiritual discipline of confession. Study guide included.

Digging Deeper

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Author : Marcus Baker
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2025-07-09

Digging Deeper written by Marcus Baker and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-09 with Religion categories.

How would you answer the man who told you that if you have not been baptized into the church he belongs to, then you are not really a Christian? What if he had Bible verses to prove it? “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:4-5). “And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name” (Acts 22:16). This is what Michael Shank argues in his book, Muscle and a Shovel. He describes the Church of Christ in these words: “Plain Bible teaching with no human opinions. Allowing the Bible to speak where it speaks. A people who desire book, chapter, and verse for every belief and practice potentially prescribed to. Anything not found in the Word would be thrown aside as insufficient.” Sounds convincing, right? However, a proper understanding of Scripture goes beyond the surface-level excavation presented in Muscle and a Shovel. Digging Deeper examines Mr. Shank’s bold assertions in light of God’s Word. It will equip you to recognize the faulty interpretive methods which lead him to teach contrary to the message of the Bible. Digging Deeper also serves as an introduction to important theological categories. Biblical definitions of key terms are provided and explored, revealing the majesty of the true gospel—salvation by faith alone—while exposing a false, works-based gospel for its inability to save sinners.

Reviving The Ancient Faith The Story Of Churches Of Christ In America

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Author : Richard T. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Release Date : 2024-01-11

Reviving The Ancient Faith The Story Of Churches Of Christ In America written by Richard T. Hughes and has been published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Religion categories.

A balanced, well-documented history of the Churches of Christ in America The Churches of Christ is a denomination defined by not being a denomination. These communities intended to restore a primitive Christianity, undivided by historical quarrels. Despite this ideal, the Churches of Christ in America have a surprisingly complex history dating back to the nineteenth century. James L. Gorman's fresh edition of Richard T. Hughes's classic work, Reviving the Ancient Faith, illuminates the movement started by Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell. The authors trace the movement's sociological transformation into a denomination from the 1830s into the twentieth century. Four developments forged this new identity: the premillennialist controversy, the divide over institutions, the racial segregation of congregations and schools, and the fight over liberalism in the 1960s. New to the third edition, the final chapters bring the history of Churches of Christ from the 1960s up to 2022, analyzing the growing diversity of the movement amid intradenominational "culture wars." Reviving the Ancient Faith, 3rd edition, challenges readers to learn the historical basis of Church of Christ identity and beliefs. Students of the history of the Church of Christ and American religion will derive from its pages a more holistic and informed understanding of the tradition.

Raccoon John Smith

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Author : John Sparks
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2005-12-23

Raccoon John Smith written by John Sparks and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-23 with Political Science categories.

Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state’s best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved considerable odds to preach and establish the self-described “pure, nondenominational” Christianity of Stone and Campbell throughout the state and beyond. The 1832 union of Stone and Campbell’s churches was in fact formalized not by Stone and Campbell, but by Stone together with Smith, who represented Campbell’s constituency in Kentucky. Raccoon John Smith occupies a well-deserved place both in Kentucky and Stone-Campbell history. All previous biographical studies have been colored by the religious faith he embraced and the legends that evolved around him, however, rather than giving an accurate account of Smith’s life. In Raccoon John Smith, Elder John Sparks fills this void in the literature about Smith, using historical sources to present a faithful portrait of a seminal frontier preacher and colorful figure in early Kentucky history.

Restoring The First Century Church In The Twenty First Century

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Author : Warren Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-10-15

Restoring The First Century Church In The Twenty First Century written by Warren Lewis and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-15 with Religion categories.

'Restoring the First-century Church in the Twenty-first Century: Essays on the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement in Honor of Don Haymes' is a snap-shot of a major American religious movement just after the turn of the millennium. When the ÒDisciplesÓ of Alexander Campbell and the ÒChristiansÓ of Barton Warren Stone joined forces early in the 19th century, the first indigenous ecumenical movement in the United States came into being. Two hundred years later, this American experiment in biblical primitivism has resulted in three, possibly four, large segments. Best known is the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), active wherever ecumenical Christians gather. The denomination is typically theologically open, having been reshaped by theological Liberalism and the Social Gospel in the twentieth century, and has been re-organized on the model of other Protestant bodies. The largest group, the Churches of Christ, easily distinguished by their insistence on 'a cappella' music (singing only), is theologically conservative, now tending towards the evangelical, and congregationally autonomous, though with a denominational sense of brotherhood. The Christian Churches/Churches of Christ (Independent) are a 'via media' between the two other bodies: theologically conservative and evangelical, congregationally autonomous, pastorally oriented, and comfortable with instrumental music. The fourth numerically significant group, the churches of Christ (Anti-Institutional), is a conservative reaction to the 'a cappella' churches, much in the way that the Southern ''a capella' churches reacted against the emerging intellectual culture and social location, instrumental music and institutional centrism of the Northern Disciples following the Civil War. Besides these four, numerous smaller fragments, typically one-article splinter groups, decorate the history of the Restoration Movement: One-Cup brethren, Premillennialists, No-Sunday-School congregations, No-Located-Preacher churches, and others. This movement to unite Christians on the basis of faith and immersion in Jesus Christ, and to restore New-Testament Christianity, is too little recognized on the American religious landscape, and it has been too little studied by the academic community. This volume is focused primarily on the 'a cappella' churches and their interests, but implications for the entire Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement abound. The voices that speak freely within were unimpeded in authoring these essays by standards of orthodoxy imposed from without. All of the contributors are acquainted with Don Haymes, the honoree of the volume, and have been inspired by this friend and colleague, a man with a rigorous and earthy intellect and a heavenly spirit. David Bundy, series editor Studies in the History and Culture of World Christianities

The Living Pulpit

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Author : Mary Alice Mulligan
language : en
Publisher: Chalice Press
Release Date : 2018-04-10

The Living Pulpit written by Mary Alice Mulligan and has been published by Chalice Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Religion categories.

Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume. The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representative preachers in the Stone-Campbell Movement--pastors affiliated with the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--over the past 50 years. The fourth volume in a series that began in 1868, this collection of sermons from 40 ministers, reviewed by a diverse team of scholars, captures the theological themes and changing approaches to preaching across the Movement’s three streams. Emerging from an era of mutual suspicion, the three streams have developed a better understanding, shared mutuality and respect for each stream’s unique qualities, and cooperated in many venues, qualities reflected in this collection. The Living Pulpit 2018 helps preachers and scholars recognize where preaching has been--and why it has been there--in each stream, and where preaching appears to be going in a new mission field for Christianity and the Unity Movement. General Editor: Mary Alice Mulligan Contributing Editors: Ronald Allen, Dave Bland, David Fleer, Joseph Grana II, Tim Sensing, Bruce Shields, Casey Sigmon, Richard Voelz Contributors: Jimmy Allen, Lynn Anderson, Gene Appel, Dean Barham, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Russell Blowers, Laura Buffington, Delores Carpenter, Janet Casey-Allen, Mike Cope, Fred Craddock, Lisa Davison, Glenn Elliott, Mark Frost, Joseph Grana II, Andrew Hairston, Cynthia Hale, Allen Harris, Jodi Hickerson, Cal Jernigan, Sandhya Jha, David Kagiwada, Michael Kinnamon, Roy Lawson, Marshall Leggett, Jim McGuiggan, Bob Mink, José Morales, Ronald Osborn, Derek Penwell, Norman Reed, Mary Louise Rowand, Rob Russell, Landon B. Saunders, Mark Scott, Tim Sensing, Bob Shannon, Rubel Shelly, Bruce Shields, Casey Sigmon, Myron Taylor, Samuel Twumasi-Ankrah, Richard Voelz, Paul Watson, J.S. Winston

Recovering The Margins Of American Religious History

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Author : B. Dwain Waldrep
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2012-04-03

Recovering The Margins Of American Religious History written by B. Dwain Waldrep and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Religion categories.

Harrell's connections with these religious movements point to his deeper ongoing concerns with class, gender, and race as core factors behind religious institutions, and he has unblinkingly investigated a wide range of social dynamics.

Southern White Ministers And The Civil Rights Movement

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Author : Elaine Allen Lechtreck
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-05-29

Southern White Ministers And The Civil Rights Movement written by Elaine Allen Lechtreck and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with History categories.

In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a sermon based on the Golden Rule. He pronounced that Jesus Christ was asking Christians to view the bombing from the perspective of their black neighbors and asserted, "We don't realize it yet, but because Martin Luther King Jr. is preaching nonviolence, which is Jesus's way, someday Martin Luther King Jr. will be seen as the best friend the white man in the South has ever had." During the sermon, members of the congregation yelled, "You devil, you!" and, immediately, Floyd was dismissed. Although not every anti-segregation white minister was as outspoken as Pastor Floyd, many signed petitions, organized interracial groups, or preached gently from a gospel of love and justice. Those who spoke and acted outright on behalf of the civil rights movement were harassed, beaten, and even jailed. Based on interviews and personal memoirs, Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement traces the efforts of these clergymen who--deeply moved by the struggle of African Americans--looked for ways to reconcile the history of discrimination and slavery with Christian principles and to help their black neighbors. While many understand the role political leaders on national stages played in challenging the status quo of the South, this book reveals the significant contribution of these ministers in breaking down segregation through preaching a message of love.