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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.

“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, 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.

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 …

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.

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.

David Lipscomb On Rebaptism: Contexts Of A Controversy, Mcgarvey Ice

Library Research and Publications

This paper sets David Lipscomb's position on rebaptism in three contexts.

First, to provide a historical context, it states the circumstances of his baptism

and examines how and to what ends he employed the narrative of it. Second, to

craft a theological context, it contours in a broad way his doctrine of baptism.

Third, to furnish an ecclesial context, it scrutinizes the practice of receiving

members at Nashville's South College Street Christian Church, where he served

as an elder.

It Doesn't Look Like Church To Me!, Kent Smith

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The Ordinances Of The Church: Symbols? Sacraments? Mysteries?, C. Robert Wetzel

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Modernism Among Disciples, John W. Wade

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The American Frontier, W. Dennis Helsabeck Jr.

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Stone-Campbell Biography Edwin R. Errett: Martyr To A Lost Cause, Henry Webb

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Robert Richardson: Sources For Spiritual Formation In The Early Stone-Campbell Movement, Carson E. Reed

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Editors' Notes, Stuart Love, D'Esta Love, Dyron Daughrity

Dyron Daughrity

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Christian Education In The Stone-Campbell Movement, Eleanor Daniel

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The New Zealand Story: The Stone-Campbell Movement In New Zealand, Lindsay Jacobs

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The Stone-Campbell Movement---A Global View, Lindsay Jacobs

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Metropolis: A Stone-Campbell Mosaic, Jared Looney

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The Stone-Campbell Movement In Canada, Claude Cox, Stan Litke

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The Stone-Campbell Movement In Latin America And The Caribbean, Carmelo Alvarez

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The Restoration (Stone-Campbell) Movement In Africa: Its Beginning And Development, Bosela Eale

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Editors' Notes, Stuart Love, D'Esta Love, Dyron Daughrity

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