March 11, 2013
While reading parts of the Firm Foundation for a research project, I rediscovered the following article by J. D. Tant (“Looking Back Fifty Years,” Firm Foundation 50.3 [17 January 1933] 2). In this article he highlights how the Firm Foundation had served the church over the past fifty years. In his view, the periodical saved the church from extremes–the extreme […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Austin McGary, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, Firm Foundation, J. D. Tant, Missionary Society, Rebaptism, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 25, 2009
When the division between Churches of Christ and the Christian Churches was recognized by the religious census of 1906, the theological perspectives among the Churches of Christ were fairly diverse. While there was an ecclesiological consensus to separate from the Christian Churches, there was considerable diversity between the three major representative “traditions” among Churches of […]
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Books, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Austin McGary, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, Division, Firm Foundation, Gospel Advocate, Holy Spirit, Indiana Tradition, Institutionalism, James A. Harding, Octographic Review, Rebaptism, Sunday School, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 4, 2009
In an earlier post I quoted a piece from G. C. Brewer’s autobiography where he objected to the emphasis that some placed on the plan of salvation rather than on a personal savior. His comment came in the context of discussing the role of confession in the five-step (or is it four-step or three-step?) plan […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Austin McGary, Baptists, Churches of Christ, Confession, David Lipscomb, E. G. Sewell, Firm Foundation, G. C. Brewer, Gospel, Gospel Advocate, Plan of Salvation, Rebaptism, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 30, 2009
Throughout 2008 I spent part of my time reading through the major journals of Churches of Christ from 1897 to 1907: Gospel Advocate, Firm Foundation, Christian Leader, Octographic Review, The Way, and Christian Leader & the Way. I have shared some of my “findings” on this blog and will do more in the future. Other […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 1, 2009
The article below, by the hand of J. N. Armstrong, first appeared in The Way entitled “United, Yet Divided” [4 (14 August 1902) 156-158]. Contextually, several factors are involved. First, the Firm Foundation out of Austin, Texas–under the editorship of Austin McGary–was pushing a sectarian agenda which demanded unity on many fronts as a prerequiste for […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Austin McGary, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Division, Fellowship, J. N. Armstrong, James A. Harding, Right Hand of Fellowship, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks