This volume is a reprint of the most through treatise on pacifism and the separation of church and state from the early era of the Stone-Campbell movement. Drawing on the Old and New Testaments as well as the witness of the early church, Lipscomb makes a strong case for the church's non-involvement in civil government (in contrast with the divine government, which is being demonstrated through the church community). This is the third book in the Library of Radical Christian Discipleship, a collection of works by/about movements in church history that were deeply rooted (the English word radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning root) in their commitment to following the self-denying example of Jesus and the early church in embodying the Gospel as contrast communities in the midst of a world held hostage by sin and death.

On Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission and Destiny and the Christian's Relation to It

David Lipscomb

History

Doulos Christou Press

<p>[Includes as an Apppendix, Alexander Campbell's "Address on War."] In DISCIPLE OF PEACE, Craig M. Watts offers the most comprehensive study ever done on the pacifism of Alexander Campbell. Watts not only provides a detailed examination of Campbell's pacifist thought, he sets it in the broader context of the antebellum American peace movement, showing that this towering figure was neither isolated nor idiosyncratic in his thinking. Campbell offered an important challenge to the religious world of the 19th century. Watts ably conveys Campbell's challenge to Christians facing war and violence in our time. *** "For some time I have been deeply dismayed that most Christians who claim Alexander Campbell as one of their spiritual forefathers know nothing of his critiques of violence and war. In these welcome and illuminating essays, Craig Watts hopes to put an end to such a travesty by documenting convincingly that Campbell firmly believed that restoring primitive Christianity meant leaving b</p>

Disciple of Peace: Alexander Campbell on Pacifism, Violence and the State

Craig M. Watts

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On Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission and Destiny and the Christian's Relation to It

Disciple of Peace: Alexander Campbell on Pacifism, Violence and the State