“United, Yet Divided”: Understandable and Unavoidable
The article below, by the hand of J. N. Armstrong, first appeared in The Way entitled “United, Yet Divided” [4 (14 August 1902) 156-158]. Contextually, several factors are involved. First, the Firm...
View ArticleControversies over Hands–Forgotten Debates
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...
View ArticlePrivilege or Silence: Women in Churches of Christ (1897-1907) IV
The previous post stated the specific arguments for silence. This post presents the case for “privilege.” In January 1904 the Christian Leader and The Way merged. Though a friendly merger, it was the...
View ArticleRebaptism: The Real Rub
Throughout 2008 I spent part of my time reading through the major journals of Churches of Christ from 1897 to 1907: Gospel Advocate, Firm Foundation, Christian Leader, Octographic Review, The Way, and...
View ArticleStone-Campbell Theodicies: Nineteenth Century
“Theodicy in Early Stone-Campbell Perspectives,” in Restoring the First-Century Church in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Warren Lewis and Hans Rollmann (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2005),...
View ArticleDavid Lipscomb (1911)
Continuing my reading of Lipscomb in the first decades of the 20th century, I have lifted a few more what I regard as illuminating comments by the 80 year old editor of the Gospel Advocate. Publish...
View ArticleStruggle for the Soul of Churches of Christ (1897-1907)
When the division between Churches of Christ and the Christian Churches was recognized by the religious census of 1906, the theological perspectives among the Churches of Christ were fairly diverse....
View ArticleDaniel Sommer on the Public Religious “Duties and Privileges” of Women
Daniel Sommer (1850-1940), a graduate of Bethany College and the heralded successor of Benjamin Franklin among northern conservatives, lived and worked among congregations of Churches of Christ who...
View ArticleDaniel Sommer on Rebaptism
Daniel Sommer, the leader of northern conservatives within the Stone-Campbell Movement in the late 19th century and early 20th century, shared his mentor’s (Benjamin Franklin) perspective on the...
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