Reviving the Ancient Faith : The Story of Churches of Christ in America

by Hughes, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780802840868
• ISBN10: 0802840868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Richard T. Hughes is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Table of Contents

Preface
Glossary
Introduction: The Character of Churches of Christ	p. 1
The Enduring Influence of Alexander Campbell's Christian Baptist	p. 21
The True Church and the Hard Style: Radicalizing Alexander Campbell (Part I)	p. 47
The True Church and the Hard Style: Radicalizing Alexander Campbell (Part II)	p. 64
The Apocalyptic Outlook of Barton W. Stone	p. 92
The Apocalyptic Tradition of Churches of Christ	p. 117
A Shifting Worldview: The Premillennial Controversy	p. 137
Grace, Law, and the Fighting Style	p. 168
Resisting the Fighting Style: From Primitivism to Modernization	p. 190
The Fight over Modernization	p. 217
Understanding the 1960s: The Fundamentalist Connection and the Defense of Christian (Protestant) America	p. 254
Blacks and Whites: The Struggle for Social Justice in the 1960s	p. 270
Fragmentation: Left and Right	p. 307
Conclusion: Renewal and Reform	p. 352
Notes	p. 386
Index	p. 435
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