November 17, 2022
James Gorman, an historian of the Restoration Movement (Stone-Campbell Movement) and Professor at Johnson University near Knoxville, Tennessee, is conducting a series of oral histories about the churches of Christ in the 21st century. These oral histories are available on the ACU website. Jamey asked me a series of questions about my biography and life […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Evangelicalism, Restoration Movement, Sacraments, Sectarianism, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 4, 2014
This is the report in Nashville’s Republican Banner (April 9, 1857), page 3. Destructive Fire! CHURCH BURNED!–LOSS $25,000 The cry of fire was raised yesterday morning between 5 and 6 o’clock, by the discovery of flames issuing from a small Carpenter Shop in South Field, near the Depot of the Tenn. & Ala. R. R., […]
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Church History, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Christian Church, Churches of Christ, Nashville, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 11, 2013
Yesterday I received my copy of J. Caleb Clanton’s new book entitled The Philosophy of Religion of Alexander Campbell (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013). I had previously read the manuscript in early 2012 and am pleased to see it in print. Caleb taught philosophy at Pepperdine for several years but now teaches at Lipscomb. I am […]
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Books, Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Free Will Defense, God, J. Caleb Clanton, Meticulous Providence, Philosophy of Religion, Providence, Stone-Campbell Movement, Theodicy |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
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
January 15, 2009
Foy E. Wallace, Jr. dubbed Harding College “an incubus of error” and “unsound” in the May 1941 issue of The Bible Banner. Wallace’s assault against George Benson, J. N. Armstrong and Harding College is a good illustration of the tension between the Texas and Tennessee theological traditions within Churches of Christ. The emphases below are […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Firm Foundation, Foy E. Wallace, George Benson, Harding University, Holy Spirit, J. N. Armstrong, Miracles, Nashville Bible School, Premillennialism, Providence, Rebaptism, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement, Tennesee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 4, 2009
David Lipscomb (1831-1917) and James A. Harding (1848-1922) belonged to the same theological orbit. They started the Nashville Bible School (now Lipscomb University) together in 1891. Harding, for a time, was an associate editor of the Gospel Advocate in the 1880s. They agreed on a host of theological issues, including opposition to rebaptism, renewed earth eschatology, […]
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Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: CEI, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, James A. Harding, Laying on Hands, Patternism, Polity, Right Hand of Fellowship, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks