181 To the Faithful Associated Pastors of the Churches of Christ From the Worcestershire Association Kidderminster, 25 May 1654

1991 ◽  
pp. 140-140
Author(s):  
Richard Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Churches Of Christ

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)

An Attempt at a Theological Analysis of Missionary Motivation

1963 ◽  
Vol os-14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
H. Richard Niebuhr
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
International Missionary Council ◽  
The Church

This article represents a paper prepared under the direction of the Research Committee of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and presented in April, 1951, as part of the American preparatory study on The Missionary Obligation of the Church”, the theme of the Enlarged Meeting of the International Missionary Council in Willingen. Germany, in 1952 So far as we know, it has never been published. It is presented now because of its intrinsic value and because it is as timely as it was a decade ago, if not more so. Un his death in 1962, Dr. Niebuh was for many years Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics in the Yale University Divinary School. The article is published with the kind permission of Mrs. H. Richard Niebuhr.

The Evangelical Discovery of History

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 330-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Bebbington
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church

‘From some modern perspectives’, wrote James Belich, a leading historian of New Zealand, in 1996, ‘the evangelicals are hard to like. They dressed like crows; seemed joyless, humourless and sometimes hypocritical; [and] they embalmed the evidence poor historians need to read in tedious preaching’. Similar views have often been expressed in the historiography of Evangelical Protestantism, the subject of this essay. It will cover such disapproving appraisals of the Evangelical past, but because a high proportion of the writing about the movement was by insiders it will have more to say about studies by Evangelicals of their own history. Evangelicals are taken to be those who have placed particular stress on the value of the Bible, the doctrine of the cross, an experience of conversion and a responsibility for activism. They were to be found in the Church of England and its sister provinces of the Anglican communion, forming an Evangelical party that rivalled the high church and broad church tendencies, and also in the denominations that stemmed from Nonconformity in England and Wales, as well as in the Protestant churches of Scotland. Evangelicals were strong, often overwhelmingly so, within Methodism and Congregationalism and among the Baptists and the Presbyterians. Some bodies that arose later on, including the (so-called Plymouth) Brethren, the Churches of Christ and the Pentecostals (the last two primarily American in origin), joined the Evangelical coalition.

The Unfinished Task of Christopher Columbus

1952 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hugh Bousman
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The South ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
General Secretary

(This is an address presented at the Indonesia luncheon meeting of the South East Asia Committee, Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., on September 25, 1952. The Reverend Hugh Bousman is Associate General Secretary of the Philippine Federation of Christian Churches. While on furlough he is serving as an associate in the Far Eastern Joint Office. — Editor)

Mission as Seen from Geneva: A Conversation with Eugene L. Stockwell

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
World Council ◽  
World Mission ◽  
General Secretary

Eugene L. Stockwell is Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was studying theology, and was raised from the age of three in Argentina, where his father served as president of Union Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires. As a young man Stockwell studied and practiced law before deciding to enter Union Theological Seminary (New York) and the ministry. He and his wife worked as United Methodist missionaries for ten years in Uruguay, from 1952 to 1962. This was followed by two years as Latin American Secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions and then eight years as Assistant General Secretary for Program Administration. In 1972 Stockwell became Associate General Secretary for Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. He took up his present responsibilities in Geneva in 1984. While visiting at the Overseas Ministries Study Center recently, Stockwell shared some of his thoughts on developments and directions in world mission with Editor Gerald H. Anderson and Research Assistant Robert T. Coote of the International Bulletin.

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