March 27, 2013
During the summer of 1858 Tolbert Fanning, President of Franklin College and a leader in Middle Tennessee for over twenty-five years, toured the congregations surrounding Nashville. He recounts this tour in the September 1858 edition of the Gospel Advocate (“Prospects in Middle Tennessee,” pp. 257-263). He visited Hartsville and Bledsoe’s Creek congregations in Sumner county; Lebanon […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Acts of Worship, Assembly, Churches of Christ, Liturgy, Lord's Day, Nashville, Sunday, Tennessee, Tolbert Fanning |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 26, 2013
David Lipscomb wrote a wonderful biography of Tolbert Fanning which was published in Franklin College and Its Influences (Nashville: McQuiddy Printing, 1906). There are many historical gems in this piece, especially concerning the history of the Nashville Church. One particular theme struck me as I read through it again. After Philip Slater Fall, who had led […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Church Planting, David Lipscomb, Ecclesiology, Ministry, Mutual Edification, Philip S. Fall, Tolbert Fanning |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 8, 2013
While David Lipscomb, editor the Gospel Advocate after the Civil War (beginning in 1866), opposed rebaptizing those who were immersed to obey God though they did not understand its design for the remission of sins, the original editors of the GA thought differently. While reading through the 1855-1861 GA, I ran across the following two statements from […]
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Theology | Tagged: Baptism, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, Gospel Advocate, Rebaptism, Tolbert Fanning, William Lipscomb |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 9, 2012
In the last issue of the Gospel Advocate during the Civil War, December 1861, Fanning noted the death of an “old friend,” Pierce Butler Anderson. It is Fanning’s last comment on the Civil War until the Gospel Advocate was rebirthed in January 1866. Fanning is gracious in reporting his death knowing “the Lord of all the […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Civil War, Gospel Advocate, Peace, Pierce Butler Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Tolbert Fanning, War |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 7, 2012
The church in Murfreesboro was divided over the war. Previously Fanning had published a letter from Lillard, Harding and Ransome, and he had printed an article by “Disciple” who responded to that letter from within the same church. Fanning now feels compelled to comment on their exchange. He uses the occasion to clarify his position. […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Civil War, David Lipscomb, Gospel Advocate, Kingdom of God, Peace, Tolbert Fanning, War, Worldly Powers |
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