An American Religious Movement : A Brief History of the Disciples of ChristGarrison, Winfred Ernest
History
An American Religious Movement : A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ
Garrison, Winfred Ernest
Disciples of Christ -- History
The religious world today is very different from what it was a century
ago. Science has given us a different conception of nature and of the
universe. Biblical criticism has changed for most of us our view of
the Bible, making it not a less but a more valuable book for the
student of religion. This increase of light is evident in every
department of knowledge. Is it possible that all these changes do not
require any readjustment in the matter and method of a plea for unity
inaugurated more than a century ago?
This suggestion bore fruit, a few years later, in the appointment of a
Commission on Restudy of the Disciples of Christ. Since 1935, this
commission has carried on a study of the past and the present with a
view to finding what readjustments may profitably be made for the
future. This is only one of many groups which are concerned that the
Disciples shall not simply be “a great people,” as they sometimes
proudly and truly claim that they are, but shall go forward to the
fulfillment of their highest purposes. There is yet much light to break
from God’s Word and from the teachings of their own experience.
INDEX
A
“Acceptance with God,” 23
Acheson, Thomas, 69
Adams, John, 19, 29
Africans brought to England, 24
Ahorey, 60
Ainslie, Peter, 150
Alabama, “Christian” churches in, 98
Allen, T., M., 101
Altars, Abraham, 66
Amend, William, 85
America in 19th century: characteristics of, 28-31;
churches in, 31-36
American and Foreign Bible Society, 109
American Christian Bible Society, 108
American Christian Education Society, 143
American Christian Missionary Society, 111, 112, 122-23, 124, 126,
143;
founded, 110;
ceases to function, 123
_American Christian Review_, 113, 122, 124
Ames, E. S., 138
Anabaptists, 18
Anglican Church, separation of Methodists from, 42f.
Anti-Burgher Presbyterians, 60
Antislavery societies, 36
_Apology for renouncing the Jurisdiction of the Synod of Kentucky,
An_, 54
_Apostolic Times_, 124
Arkansas College, 115
Armenians, missions to, 128
Asbury, Francis, 41-43 _passim_
“Associate membership,” 138
Associated Free Agencies, 146
Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity, 150
Augsburg Confession, 19
Aulard, A., 19
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