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Tag Archives: Restoration Movement
This Has Nothing to Do with the Instrumental Music Controversy at All. Really.
It’s amazing how we delight in creativity. It’s because, I believe, the creative side of humans is very much in the image of God. When we delight in the arts, we delight in a spark of God that remains in … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Christian art, Church of Christ Links, Gnosticism, Instrumental music, Restoration Movement
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Replanting a Denomination: The Original Restoration Plea
A reader posted a comment, suggesting that the original Restoration Plea was not as I characterized it in the last post of this series, asserting – In actuallity, the concept of teaching “the correct doctrines of baptism, worship, and church … Continue reading
Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: Landmarkism
Many of the second generation of the Restoration Movement misunderstood the Campbells. In particular, Moses Lard and Benjamin Franklin (great nephew of the Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin) taught a much narrower doctrine of salvation (soterology), sometimes insisting on near-perfect doctrine … Continue reading
Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: The Missionary Society
Late in his career, Alexander Campbell argued strenuously for a national missionary society. In many states, Restoration Movement churches had already organized societies (a 19th Century term for a nonprofit organization) to send out missionaries and to do other good … Continue reading
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Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: Baptism, Primitivism, and Heresy, Part 2
This brings us to the famous Lunenburg letter correspondence. Some of Campbell’s early writing often seems to suggest that he considered baptism essential to salvation. And this was conventional wisdom within much of the Movement. However, Stone had never considered … Continue reading
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