May 20, 2014
The Nashville Tennessean, in an article entitled “ALL DELIGHTED,” described the proceedings of the General Christian Missionary Convention’s 1892 annual meeting (October 21, 1892, p. 8). This was a highwater mark in the tension within the Stone-Campbell Movement (or, American Restoration Movement). The missionary societies held their convention in the capital of its opposition. There […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Christian Church, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, Disciples of Christ, Division, Indiana Tradition, James A. Harding, Missionary Society, Nashville, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 10, 2011
Daniel Sommer (1850-1940), a graduate of Bethany College and the heralded successor of Benjamin Franklin among northern conservatives, lived and worked among congregations of Churches of Christ who were more open to the public voice of women than their southern counterparts. In particular, at least in the article below, Sommer is quite explicit about the […]
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Theology | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, Exhortation, Gender, Indiana Tradition, Prayer, Tennessee Tradition, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 16, 2009
Last January I began a series surveying the privilege of women to speak or their restricted silence within assemblies of Churches of Christ from 1897 to 1907. I never completed the series because Discipliana (the journal of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society) was interested in publishing an article on the topic. That article […]
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Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Churches of Christ, Ecclesiology, Gender, Indiana Tradition, Sommer, Stone-Campbell, Tennesee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Women |
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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
April 13, 2009
Continuing my reading of Lipscomb in the first decades of the 20th century, I have lifted a few more what I regard as illuminating comments by the 80 year old editor of the Gospel Advocate. Publish Both Sides for Free Discussion. Lipscomb believed that fair, thorough and open discussion of a biblical issue was the […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Ecclesiology, Gender, Indiana Tradition, Joe S. Warlick, Ministry of Jesus, Papers, Poor, Silena Moore Holman, Stone-Campbell, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 8, 2009
As I continue to study and think about the Texas, Tennessee and Indiana Traditions within Churches of Christ in the first decades of the 20th century, I have been reading through the Gospel Advocate in those early years of the last century. I thought I would provide a sampling of what has interested me in […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 3, 2009
“Theodicy in Early Stone-Campbell Perspectives,” in Restoring the First-Century Church in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Warren Lewis and Hans Rollmann (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2005), 287-310. In honor of Don Haymes, I penned an article concerning the various “theodices” that were prominent in the 19th century Stone-Campbell Movement. It was interesting to […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Deism, Evil, Free Will, Holy Spirit, Indiana Tradition, James A. Harding, Providence, Stone-Campbell, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Theodicy |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 25, 2009
The previous post stated the specific arguments for silence. This post presents the case for “privilege.” In January 1904 the Christian Leader and The Way merged. Though a friendly merger, it was the union of a strong Tennessee paper with a Northern paper whose roots were shared by Daniel Sommer. This entailed some substantial difference […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Assembly, Christian Leader, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, Female, Firm Foundation, Indiana Tradition, James A. Harding, Octographic Review, Sommer Tradition, Tennessee Tradition, Women |
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