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Title: Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America by Richard T. Hughes ISBN: 0-8028-4086-8 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Histories of the Stone-Campbell Movement
Comment: Reviving the Ancient Faith is by far one of the three best histories of the Stone-Campbell Reformation in print, the others being Leroy Garrett's Stone Campbell Movement, Revised Edition, and Robert Hooper's A Distinct People. Anyone interested in the origins and history of the Church of Christ, and what makes those "peculiar people" so peculiar will find Hughes' book most enlightening.
Hughes traces the two main streams of our tradition, exemplified by "founders" Barton Warren Stone and Alexander Campbell and how Stone's apocalyptic, countercultural worldview and Campbell's "progressive primitivism" and focus on restoring the ancient gospel merged in second and third generation leaders like Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb and James A. Harding. As one who grew up in the church of Christ, I was intrigued to learn from Hughes in the book, that our tradition had several pre-millennial evangelists (actually a pre-millennial "wing" of our brotherhood), which I had never realized before (most traces of it were "stamped out" by conservatives such as Foy Wallace, Jr., until memory of this branch of our tradition was lost by the mainline churches). Those sections of the book alone make it worth reading.
Hughes continues by examining in detail the triumphs and controversies of the twentieth century, through the insitutional wranglings of the fifties and sixties, the Crossroads movement of the seventies and on into modern times.
Some readers may be suprised at much of the material presented, as much of it has been consciously or unconsciously "swept under the rug," as it were, by the church as a whole. For this reason, many have inaccurately accused Hughes of "revisionist history."
My one problem with the book is the absence of any substantive material on Alexander Campbell's father Thomas, and the latter's pivotal 1809 "Declaration and Address," which greatly influenced the thinking of his son Alexander and, at least in the early years served as the movement's Magna Carta.
But all in all, Reviving the Ancient Faith is a great primer on the Churches of Christ and what makes us tick.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Overview
Comment: The author provides a well-balanced, readable and compelling overview of the people and issues that have influenced the modern history of the churches of Christ. The book was fourteen years in the making and is extremely well-researched and well-documented. It includes dozens of historic photographs and drawings of people who figure prominently in the text.
The book covers the standard history starting with Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, continuing through the various controversies that divided and subdivided the body in the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century: missionary societies, instrumental music, premillennialism, moderization and institutionalism. It then provides excellent sections on more recent trends and controversies, including racial issues, campus ministries, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the Crossroads and Boston movements, the emphasis on grace, the "new hermeneutic" crisis, and the role of women in the church.
I would highly recommend this book for every member of the church of Christ and for anyone who wants an excellent overview of the church's modern history.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not up to par
Comment: After admittedly a scan, not detailed reading, the book has problems. It appears to tell readers what they expect or want to hear, but not necessarily what actually happened in the history of the Church of Christ. If you are going to rely on this book, be sure to read other histories to get balance.
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Title: Tradition, Opinion, and Truth : The Emerging Church of Christ by Fred Peatross ISBN: 0595139116 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Barton Stone: A Spiritual Biography by D. Newell Williams ISBN: 0827202288 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Radical Restoration: A Call for Pure and Simple Christianity by F. LaGard Smith ISBN: 0966006038 Publisher: 21st Century Christian, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Disciples and the Bible: A History of Disciples Biblical Interpretation in North America by M. Eugene Boring ISBN: 0827206224 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement by William R. Baker ISBN: 0830826939 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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