Title: Discovering our roots :
Authors: Allen, Crawford Leonard.; Hughes, Richard T.
Date: 1988
Publisher: ACU Press,
Physical description: xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: This book presents a restorationist vision for the Churches of Christ and shows the history of restorationist thought in Christianity. 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. - Publisher.
Contents: Roots : why bother? -- Our roots in the Renaissance -- Our roots in the Reformation -- Our roots among English Puritans -- Our roots among New England Puritans -- Our roots among Baptists -- Our roots in the Age of Reason -- Our roots in the American experience -- The birth of our movement -- Restoring the gospel of grace : Martin Luther -- Restoring an Apostolic lifestyle : Anabaptists -- Restoring life in the Spirit : Holiness and Pentecostal advocates -- Conclusion : what can we learn?
Subject headings (LCSH): Churches of Christ--Doctrines.; Churches of Christ--History.; Restoration movement (Christianity)