April 19, 2017
The following is three paragraphs from a paper which I have just placed on my Academic page. The paper is entitled “The Unfinished Business of the Protestant Reformation: Alexander Campbell’s Relationship to Protestantism.” It was delivered on April 8, 2017 at the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference held at Johnson University. You may read the full paper […]
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Ancient Gospel, Ancient Order, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Mission, Protestantism, Restoration Movement, Restorationism, Stone-Campbell, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 22, 2017
Paul describes salvation in three tenses—past, present and future. We have been saved (Ephesians 2:8), we are in the process of being saved (2 Corinthians 2:15), and we will be saved (Romans 5:9-10). Theologians have generally summarized these “tenses” as “Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.” The Stone-Campbell Movement has recognized each of these, but different people […]
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Baptism, Eschatology, Faith, Glorification, Justification, Sanctification, Soteriology', Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 8, 2015
Eschatology. Millennialism. Second Advent. Judgment. New Heaven and Earth. Nineteenth century Restorationists, from Alexander Campbell to David Lipscomb, spoke and wrote about these subjects. They often disagreed, however. Alexander Campbell was a postmillennialist. James A. Harding was a premillennialist. Walter Scott changed his mind several times. David Lipscomb was uncertain. However, these all agreed that […]
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Church History, Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Creation, Eschatology, Nashville Bible School, Renewed Earth, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 11, 2014
[Michael Shank, Muscle and a Shovel: A raw, gritty, true story about finding the Truth in a world drowning in religious confusion (5th edition, 2013; Kindle version). I have cited the book with chapter number first, then the Kindle location. For example, Chapter 1, location 245 is cited as 1:245.] [I have expanded my three-blog […]
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Books, Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Baptism, Church, Churches of Christ, Michael Shank, Muscle and a Shovel, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 23, 2014
While there are many variations along a continuum, credobaptists (that is, those who baptize believers) approach children within the faith community in two major ways. On the one hand there are the revivalists, but on the other hand there are those who emphasize nurture. Revivalists believe that children within the faith community, at some point, […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Baptism, Children, Churches of Christ, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 10, 2014
While doing some research in Nashville newspapers, I encountered this piece by David Lipscomb: “South Nashville Church of Christ,” Daily American (January 17, 1906), p. 8. I thought it was interesting for several reasons. 1. It illustrates that Lipscomb thought church planting was the way to grow the kingdom. 2. It illustrates the use of […]
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Stone-Campbell, Uncategorized | Tagged: Church, Church Planting, David Lipscomb, Ecclesiology, Evangelism, Mission, Mutual Edification, Stone-Campbell, Tent Meetings |
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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