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- Subject: Re: Christian Church Disciples of Christ?
- Message-ID: <Jan.26.03.12.44.1993.13821@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 08:12:46 GMT
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- CLH> The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is the liberal wing of
- CLH> the Restoration Movement of the early 19th Cent. It was formed
- CLH> in 1831 by a merger of "Christians" and "Disciples". . . . The
- CLH> more conservatives left in 1927, forming the group that is more
- CLH> commonly known as the Church of Christ or the Christian
- CLH> Church.
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- Just a point of clarification, the Restoration Movement eventually
- split into three bodies: The Disciples of Christ, The Independent
- Christian Churches, and The Churches of Christ (non instrumental).
- The Churches of Christ split away from the Disciples in 1906 and the
- Independent Christian Churches split away from the Disciples in
- 1927.
-
- Although there are many books on the Restoration Movement, one of
- the most recent and best is _In Search of Christian Unity: A History
- of the Restoration Movement_ by Henry E. Webb (Standard
- Publishing, 1990). For those with a more scholarly bent, there's a
- good "intellectual history" of the Movement by Richard M. Tristano
- entitled _The Origins of the Restoration Movement_ (Glenmary
- Research Center, 1988). These two books offer the most balanced
- accounting of the whole movement. FYI.
-
- Russ Paden
- Internet: Russ@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Bitnet: Russ@ukanvax
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