John Mark Hicks

Essay on Alexander Campbell’s Rejection of Creeds on the 1700th Anniversary of the Nicene Creed Theology Study Group: Stone-Campbell Journal Conference 2025 In a 2024 essay in the Restoration Quarterly, Brad East lamented the loss of catholicity, particularly soteriological ecclesiology and effectual sacramentality, among Churches of Christ within the past fifty years. One recourse, Brad […]

This video both defines the Rule of Faith and describes its relation to reading the Bible theologically as part of a common faith among disciples of Jesus. I refer to Paul Blower’s article several times in this video. You may access that article here. The article was originally published as “The Regula Fidei and the […]

Nancy Koester’s The History of Christianity in the United States (Fortress, 2007) is my current supplementary text in my undergraudate Stone-Campbell Movement course at Lipscomb University. I use it to provide the American context for Stone-Campbell history. I was surprised to read this sentence in the book (p. 61):  “[Alexander Campbell] also rejected the doctrine of Trinity […]