Discovering Our Roots: The Ancestry of Churches of Christ

This rich and challenging book explores the roots or ancestry of the Churches of Christ and others who stand as heirs to the Stone-Campbell movement of the early nineteenth century. It asks, 'Where did we come from? How did we get this way? Why do we read the Bible the way we do? What has been the heart of our movement?' And it asks further, 'What can we learn from those who have viewed restoration of apostolic Christianity in ways quite different from our own?' The authors begin their story in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - the age of Renaissance and Reformation. They isolate the stream of restorationist thought that arose in that age and then follow that stream through the Puritans, the early Baptists in America, the frenzy of pure beginnings in the early decades of American nationhood, and down to the Stone-Campbell movement.

C. Leonard Allen

Religion & Spirituality

Abilene Christian Univ Press

This new edition of The Cruciform Church finds Churches of Christ at a quite different place than they were sixteen years ago when the book was first released. On the one hand, our culture is more clearly post-modern and post-Christian. All of the Christian players today are finding themselves cultural outsiders, much like the earliest Christians. We are waking up to the reality that we are in a missionary situation in our own culture, and this is forcing us (slowly, by fits and starts) to rethink our priorities and our mission. On the other hand, Churches of Christ themselves are engaging more and more in the kind of healthy theological rethinking that this book called for back in 1990. Many congregations are shedding the sectarian or exclusivist outlook, gaining new appreciation for their heritage, refocusing on the central doctrines of the faith, and entering into serious dialogue about carrying out the mission of God in this new time...Perhaps this new edition can continue to provide stimulus and guidance as the adventure continues. Toward that end, this edition contains a new chapter, ""Last(ing) Things,"" that seeks to show the close relationship between eschatology and discipleship, between one's view of the coming kingdom of God and the cruciform life."" - From Allen's Preface to the Revised Edition

The Cruciform Church

Abilene Christian Univ Pr

Crucified Church

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword, by Reuel Lemmons; 1: The Identity Crisis of Churches of Christ; 2: Secularized Religion in American Culture, 3: The Secular Church in the Restoration Movement, 4: The Scandal of the Gospel Today, 5: Recovering the Way, 6: Conclusion, 7: Postscript, For Further Reading; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

The Worldly Church: A Call for Biblical Renewal

Richard T. Hughes

Michael R. Weed

Abilene Christian University Press

The Cruciform Church - Revised and Expanded Edition

ACU Press

Today Churches of Christ are a modern church in a world in which modernity is receding. This reality, probably more than any other factor, accounts for the swift and disorienting changes besetting them at the beginning of the twentieth-first century. 
Can this anti-tradition tradition come to terms with its own modern tradition? 
Can Churches of Christ break out of modernity's hold and engage the present age with the power of the gospel? Can they respond to the new challenges and opportunities of this 'postmodern' era?

Things Unseen: Churches of Christ In (and After) the Modern Age

Leafwood Publishers

The Holy Spirit Cannot Be Contained 
 After centuries of neglect, there is a renewed interest in the Holy Spirit. Many are beginning to realize that the Spirit is not a junior member of the Trinity, tame and shy. Poured Out explains why the church limited the Spirit for so long and how you can come to know the Spirit better and more fully. To become fruitful again to move beyond apathy, defeat, and despair you need to discover a deeper experience of life with God. A key in this recovery is the realization that the Spirit is God's primary missionary who can empower and guide you in God's work in today's world.

Poured Out: The Spirit of God Empowering the Mission of God

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