Reviving the ancient faith : the story of Churches of Christ in America / Richard T. Hughes.
Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©1996.Description: xiii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0802840868
- 9780802840868
- 286.6/3 20
- BX7075 .H84 1996
- 11.55
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-434) and index.
1. Introduction: The Character of Churches of Christ -- 2. The Enduring Influence of Alexander Campbell's Christian Baptist -- 3. The True Church and the Hard Style: Radicalizing Alexander Campbell (Part I) -- 4. The True Church and the Hard Style: Radicalizing Alexander Campbell (Part II) -- 5. The Apocalyptic Outlook of Barton W. Stone -- 6. The Apocalyptic Tradition of Churches of Christ -- 7. A Shifting Worldview: The Premillennial Controversy -- 8. Grace, Law, and the Fighting Style -- 9. Resisting the Fighting Style: From Primitivism to Modernization -- 10. The Fight over Modernization -- 11. Understanding the 1960s: The Fundamentalist Connection and the Defense of Christian (Protestant) America -- 12. Blacks and Whites: The Struggle for Social Justice in the 1960s -- 13. Fragmentation: Left and Right -- 14. Conclusion: Renewal and Reform.
This pathbreaking book by Richard T. Hughes chronicles the history of Churches of Christ in America from their inception in the early nineteenth century to the 1990s, taking full account of the complexity of their origins, the mainstream of their heritage for almost two hundred years, and their voices of protest and dissent, especially in the twentieth century.
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