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Review Of Keith Watkins. "Eucharist And Unity: A Theological Memoir." St. Louis, Mo: Christian Board Of Publication, 2023., D. Duane Cummins

Journal of Discipliana

Watkins’ studied grasp of the eucharist (Lord’s Supper, Communion) shaped his thought of it as a fellowship with the living Christ, bringing renewal to the church—and in his writings, his teaching, and in his pastoral ministry, Watkins deemed the eucharist as the focal point of liturgy. He believed the eucharist to be the key to understanding the catholicity of the church—the center of the one faith—and the core around which unity could occur. The eucharist, determined Watkins in Eucharist and Unity, is the means of recalling the sacrifice of Christ, of recovering a fullness of the meaning of church.

Review Of Richard T. Hughes And James L. Gorman, Reviving The Ancient Faith: The Story Of Churches Of Christ In America, 3rd Edition (Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2024), Douglas A. Foster

Journal of Discipliana

With skill and insight James Gorman has brought Richard Hughes’s 1996 classic history of the character of Churches of Christ to the present (2022), incorporating new scholarship since the 1980s, adding original material, and streamlining the narrative. In the first edition Hughes developed his interpretive premises in detail with extensive examples in two sections containing fourteen chapters (“The Making of a Sect” and “The Making of a Denomination”). Gorman has crafted a third section (“The Fragmentation of a Denomination”) from material taken from Hughes’s section two, adding an entirely new chapter on the twenty-first century, and reducing the book’s total …

Review Of John C. Nugent, Ed., "Restoration Appreciation: The Rich Legacy And Hopeful Future Of The Stone-Campbell Movement", Wes Crawford

Journal of Discipliana

Restoration Appreciation: The Rich Legacy and Hopeful Future of the Stone-Campbell Movement seeks to recover the best tools from the movement’s past to build a stronger and more unified future. The book consists of twelve essays originally presented at Restoration Appreciation Week, an annual lectureship held on the campus of Great Lakes Christian College (GLCC) since 2016. Most of the twelve authors serve as faculty members or administrators at GLCC, but the list also includes representatives from other colleges associated with the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ as well as preachers from the same tradition. John C. Nugent, Professor of Bible …

Review Of D. Duane Cummins, "The Disciples: A Struggle For Reformation, Second Edition", D. Newell Williams

Journal of Discipliana

D. Duane Cummins’ The Disciples: A Struggle for Reformation, Second Edition, is what the title suggests: a history of the Disciples of Christ’s struggles for reformation. Anyone who wishes to help lead the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) into the future would do well to purchase and absorb this edition.

Review Of Andrew L. Whitehead's Book "American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays The Gospel And Threatens The Church", Robert D. Cornwall

Journal of Discipliana

The 2023 General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), held in Louisville, Kentucky, received and affirmed sense-of-the-assembly resolution GA-2341 condemning Christian Nationalism. With this resolution, those gathered at the General Assembly resolved “that the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denounces Christian Nationalism in all its forms as a distortion of the Christian faith, and commits to opposing it wherever it appears, for the sake of the gospel and the good of the human family.” In addition to the resolution, the 2023 Peter Ainslie and Forrest F. Reed Lecture, held as part of the Christian Unity and Interfaith Ministries/Disciples …

A Review Of John O. Humbert, "Claiming A Legacy", Chuck Blaisdell

Journal of Discipliana

Chuck Blaisdell reviews John O. Humbert's new volume, Claiming a Legacy.

Review Of Robert Cornwall's Book, "Called To Bless: Finding Hope By Reclaiming Our Spiritual Roots", Keith Watkins

Journal of Discipliana

Called to Bless provides a theologically informed case study, based on the author’s experiences in churches, as lifelong member, ordained minister, church historian, and ecumenical advocate. It is intended to show individual Christians, pastors, church leaders, and congregations how to find a fruitful balance between their past traditions and their Christian witness for the future while living faithfully in the present.

“Longing For A Better Country: The Stone-Campbell Movement And The Search For Atlantis”, John M. Young

Journal of Discipliana

Two people with Stone-Campbell Movement ties, Edgar Cayce and Maxine Klein Asher are noted for their interest in Atlantis. Their stories serve as reminders that the Stone-Campbell Movement is neither as uniform nor as unchanging as is normally assumed.

Review Of John Young, Redrawing The Blueprints For The Early Church: Historical Ecclesiology In And Around The Stone-Campbell Movement., Joshua W. Jeffrey

Journal of Discipliana

A review of John Young’s Redrawing the Blueprints for the Early Church: Historical Ecclesiology in and around the Stone-Campbell Movement

Carl Spain’S Waves: How A Powerful Lecture Ended Segregation In Church Of Christ Colleges, Dyron Daughrity

Journal of Discipliana

In 2018, the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action was founded by Dr. Jerry Taylor of Abilene Christian University in honor of a man ahead of his time. The Center memorializes Carl Spain, a courageous professor who, in 1960, delivered a scorching lecture at Abilene Christian's Bible Lectureship entitled: “Modern Challenges to Christian Morals.” The lecture publicly excoriated the college for rejecting African American students from attending it. This paper investigates the man and the lecture that tipped the scales towards integration in Church of Christ colleges.

Review Of John Young, Visions Of Restoration: The History Of Churches Of Christ, Stan N. Helton

Journal of Discipliana

A review of John Young, Visions of Restoration: The History of Churches of Christ.

Alexander Campbell And 2022: Three Ways He Teaches Me How To Live As A Christian Today, Douglas A. Foster

Journal of Discipliana

Alexander Campbell attracted both ardent admirers and determined foes during his lifetime, yet in the century and a half since his death he became largely unknown or misunderstood, especially outside of the religious movement he helped establish. Inside, descriptions were almost universally admiring, depicting him as an unparalleled preacher, writer, theologian, educator, and one of the most learned men in America.

Since publishing A Life of Alexander Campbell, I have sometimes felt compelled to start my lectures about him with the statement, “I assure you that I do not hate Alexander Campbell.” I truly don’t. Quite the contrary, I admire …

Review Of Leonard Allen's Book "In The Great Stream: Imagining Churches Of Christ In The Christian Tradition", James L. Gorman

Journal of Discipliana

Leonard Allen, Dean of Lipscomb University’s College of Bible and Ministry, has been helping Churches of Christ engage their history and theology for four decades. This book constitutes Allen’s boldest attempt to reveal the pitfalls of the anti-tradition posture of many Churches of Christ and, conversely, the riches of embracing the Great Tradition as an ally in the challenging twenty-first century context. Allen urges Churches of Christ to rediscover and reclaim early Christian Tradition, following the examples of Robert Webber, J. I. Packer, D. H. Williams, and others. Allen lays out a clear proposal for communal formation that deliberately utilizes …

Review Of "At The Blue Hole: Elegy For A Church On The Edge" By Jack Reese, Bob Turner

Journal of Discipliana

Review, by Bob Turner, Senior Minister, White Station Church of Christ-Iglesia de Cristo, Memphis, Tennessee, of "At the Blue Hole: Elegy for a Church on the Edge" by Jack Reese.

Disciples Of Christ: Confessing Faith As A Non-Creedal Community, Robert D. Cornwall

Journal of Discipliana

The Stone-Campbell Movement, of which the Disciples of Christ is one branch, takes pride in being a non-creedal faith community, but that status is more complicated than our claim would suggest. There is a tendency among Disciples to discount theology and confessions of faith, with some saying one can be a Disciple and believe anything one wishes. However, Disciples have deep Christological roots. While Disciples have historically turned to the Bible, and especially the New Testament, for confessional guidance the center of Disciples identity is the confession Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. This essay, which is meant …

From News-Sheet To Scholarly Quarterly: A Brief History Of Discipliana, James L. Mcmillan

Journal of Discipliana

During the 80th year of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society’s existence, January 2021 marked the rebirth of the Society’s scholarly publication Discipliana under a new name, with a broader scope, the Journal of Discipliana. This essay will help new subscribers to the Journal of Discipliana understand, and past subscribers to Discipliana recall, the birth, growth and significance of Discipliana in its eight decades.

Review Of Robert W. Steffer's Saving Cane Ridge, Robert D. Cornwall

Journal of Discipliana

A review of Robert W. Steffer, Saving Cane Ridge, published at Cane Ridge, KY, by Cane Ridge Shrine, Inc, 2015.

Lgbtq+ Inclusion: An Appeal To Stone-Campbell Movement Ideals, Michael Shepherd

Journal of Discipliana

To name exclusion as religiously-motivated violence requires us to confront the ways in which spiritual communities contribute to the marginalization of others, both by-design or as collateral damage. While violence against a minority group can be motivated by various factors, religious belief has been historically and continues to be a significant influence toward violence against the LGBTQ+ community. This presents a paradox for Christians whose sense of who they believe themselves to be (rational) and what they believe about the early and persisting Christian witness (loving) creates a religious tradition that is not fixated on violent expressions of divine commands.

Review Of James L. Gorman, Among The Early Evangelicals, Mark G. Toulouse

Journal of Discipliana

Nearly all American religious historians among Disciples have noted, I think, the influences of Rowland Hill, Greville Ewing, the Haldane brothers, and both Glas and Sandeman. What they have not done is show the development of the broader transatlantic evangelical missions movement, and how the four themes of “mission, unity, primitivism, and millennialism” repeatedly showed up through the various missionary societies in London, and in Scotland and Ireland. I think this is Jamey’s main contribution – relating this story, and its connection to the Campbells, in such an organized and compelling way.

Review Of Answered By Fire, Robert D. Cornwall

Journal of Discipliana

In August of 1801, a Presbyterian pastor in rural Kentucky hosted an annual communion event that would turn into a massive camp meeting and revival that crossed denominational, ethnic/racial, and gender boundaries. That event is known as the Cane Ridge Revival and it helped launch the Second Great Awakening, which swept across the frontier before it turned back toward the east. The Great Western Revival, of which Cane Ridge was one of the most important contributors, has its origins in the late eighteenth century and continued well into the nineteenth century. The name of that Presbyterian pastor was Barton W. …

The Whole Trouble Lies In Religion: Dwight Lyman Pendleton And The Federal Bureau Of Investigation During The First World War, Joshua W. Jeffery

Journal of Discipliana

While the founders of the Stone-Campbell Movement rejected Christian participation in warfare, by World War I, the majority of Disciples of Christ supported participation in the conflict. However, a small pocket of Disciples, such as D.L. Pendleton—the grandson of Alexander Campbell—continued to oppose Christian participation in warfare. Pendleton, a prosperous and powerful attorney and a quintessential community insider, spoke out against the war. Pendleton’s outspokenness about war transgressed community norms, transforming him from an insider to an outsider, and therefore, susceptible to both harassment by the FBI and to the vigilante justice of his community.

A Review Of A Life Of Alexander Campbell By Douglas A. Foster, Thomas H. Olbricht

Journal of Discipliana

A review of Douglas A. Foster's A Life of Alexander Campbell by Thomas H. Olbricht.

Review Of A Life Of Alexander Campbell By Douglas A. Foster, Keith Watkins

Journal of Discipliana

A review of Douglas A. Foster's biography of Alexander Campbell by Keith Watkins, Christian Theological Seminary, Emeritus.

Journalism’S Deep Roots In The Stone-Campbell Movement, John M. Imbler

Journal of Discipliana

An overview of the important role of periodical journals in the historical development of the Stone-Campbell tradition. This was the 2020 DCHS Reed lecture.

Preface, Mark G. Toulouse, James L. Mcmillan, Richard H. Lowery

Journal of Discipliana

Preface to Volume 74

Index To Discipliana 1941 - 1997, David I. Mcwhirter, James L. Mcmillan

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Index to Discipliana 1941 - 1997 by David I. McWhirter, with Introduction by James L. McMillan

Disciples History Magazine Vol-73-Nos-1-2-2014, Kristin Russell

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Disciples History Magazine Vol-73-Nos-1-2-2014

Sara Harwell, A Familiar Past: Does History Need a Moral Response?

Cynthia Hale to be honored by Disciples History

Lexington Collection at Disciples History

Nadia Lahutsky, We Owe It To Our Future: Disciples and Vatican II

Phillip R. Love, Vatican II: Human Flourishing and Me

Disciples History Magazine Vol-72-Nos-1-2-2013, Kristin Russell

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Loretta Hunnicutt, How Women Shaped Japanese and Indian Churches

C. Richard Bierce, Relationship: A Historical Definition

Richard J. Cherok, Ceremonies of Constitution: The Sycamore Street Church in Transition

Shaun Brown, Just North of the Mason-Dixon: The Mercersburg Critique of Stone-Campbell Churches

Discipliana Vol-71-Nos-1-2-2012, Glenn Thomas Carson

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-71-Nos-1-2-2012

Timothy S. Lee, IN VIEW OF EXISTING CONDITIONS A Brief History of the North American Pacific/Asian Disciples, 1891-2010 (From the Margins to the Mainstream)

Douglas A. Foster and D. Newell Williams, MANY ARE TO BE REACHED Overview of a Global History

Brad Lyons, CLARA WOULD BE PROUD

Discipliana Vol-70-Nos-1-2-2011, Glenn Thomas Carson

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-70-Nos-1-2-2011

Richard Phillips, WHOEVER HEARD OF SUCH CHRISTIANS?

Mark Toulouse, A HOLY SAMENESS. The Declaration and Address: Lingering Influences Afflicting Disciples

Dyron Daughrity, CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN INDIA: Two Profiles