International Churches of Christ

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
George D. Chryssides
Keyword(s):  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
International Churches

The Apocalyptic Origins of Churches of Christ and the Triumph of Modernism

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-214
Author(s):  
Richard T. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Disciples Of Christ ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Alexander Campbell

The origins of the American-born Churches of Christ are exceedingly complex. While most historians have argued that Churches of Christ separated from Alexander Campbell's Disciples of Christ late in the nineteenth Century, this essay will suggest that the genesis of Churches of Christ was not a matter of Separation from the Disciples at all. Rather, Churches of Christ grew from two early nineteenth-century worldviews that coalesced and intertwined with one another in ways that often defy disentanglement. The first was the apocalyptic perspective of Barton W. Stone; the second was the radically sectarian mentality of the young and brash Alexander Campbell of the Christian Baptist period (1823-1830). As early as the 1830's, these two perspectives wed, brought together in part by the matchmaking power of poverty, marginality, and social estrangement. Together, they clearly shaped a portion of the Stone-Campbell movement that, in due time, would come to be known as a denomination separate from the Disciples; namely, the Churches of Christ.

On Prophecy and Technocracy

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Paul Verghese
Keyword(s):  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council

(Adapted from an address delivered to the Program Board of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., March 10, 1966)

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