The Quest for Christian Unity, Peace, and Purity in Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address Text and Studies

by Olbricht, Thomas H.; Rollmann, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780810838437
• ISBN10: 0810838435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-26
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Emerging from the work of an international online seminar, this truly monumental volume presents a definitive text with critical apparatus for a landmark document in the history of American religion and worldwide Christian ecumenism, along with 18 insightful, incisive studies of the document's historical provenance, its theological and ecclesiological significance, and its continuing influence.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xxi
The Text of the Declaration and Address
Declaration and Address, First Edition	3	(56)
Thomas Campbell
A Collation of the Declaration and Address: Textual Variants in the First and Second Editions	59	(70)
Ernest C. Stefanik
Scripture Index to the Declaration and Address	129	(22)
Christopher R. Hutson
Studies on the Declaration and Address
Toward a Critical Edition of the Declaration and Address	151	(6)
Ernest C. Stefanik
Continental Reformation Backgrounds for the Declaration and Address	157	(16)
Thomas H. Olbricht
The Form and Function of the Declaration and Address	173	(20)
Hiram J. Lester
Scottish Rhetoric and the Declaration and Address	193	(18)
Carisse Mickey Berryhill
Thomas Campbell's Use of Scripture in the Declaration and Address	211	(12)
Christopher R. Hutson
The Theory of Logic and Inference in the Declaration and Address	223	(20)
Michael W. Casey
Hermeneutics and the Declaration and Address	243	(16)
Thomas H. Olbricht
A Pentadic Analysis of Two Pleas for Christian Unity	259	(10)
Jeffrey Dale Hobbs
Church Unity, Biblical Purity, Spiritual Maturity: Theological Synthesis in the Declaration and Address	269	(24)
Harold Kent Straughn
The Declaration and Address: Betwixt and Between	293	(10)
Jim Cook
Forbearance as a Means of Achieving Unity in the Declaration and Address	303	(20)
Lewis Leroy (Lee) Snyder
God, Christ, and Soteriology in the Declaration and Address	323	(18)
Carl F. Flynn
The Eschatology of the Declaration and Address	341	(24)
Hans Rollmann
Restoring the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The Appeal of the Declaration and Address as Interpreted by Frederick Doyle Kershner and William Robinson	365	(24)
Paul M. Blowers
The Understanding and Impact of the Declaration and Address among Churches of Christ	389	(22)
Douglas A. Foster
The Declaration and Address among Independents	411	(24)
C. J. Dull
The Declaration and Address in a Postmodern World	435	(16)
Ronald Grant Nutter
The Declaration and Address as ``Countercultural Agenda'': Then...and Now	451	(14)
Don Haymes
Thomas Campbell: A Bibliography of Primary Sources	465	(12)
Ernest C. Stefanik, compiler
Name Index	477	(8)
Subject Index	485	(4)
About the Editors	489