The American Quest for the Primitive ChurchRichard Thomas Hughes The dream of restoring primitive Christianity lies close to the core of the identity of some American denominations---Churches of Christ, Latter-day Saints, some Mennonites, and a variety of Holiness and Pentecostal denominations. But how can a return to ancient Christianity be sustained in a world increasingly driven by modernization? What meaning might such a vision have in the modern world? Twelve distinguished scholars explore these and related questions in this provocative book. |
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Contents
On Recovering the Theme of Recovery | 1 |
Puritanism and the Enlightenment | 17 |
Biblical Primitivism An Approach to New England Puritanism | 19 |
Roger Williams and the Restauration of Zion | 33 |
Primitivism in the American Enlightenment | 50 |
Puritan and Enlightenment Primitivism A Response | 69 |
Biblical Scholarship and Fundamentalism | 79 |
Biblical Primitivism in American Biblical Scholarship 16301870 | 81 |
Biblical Primitivism in the American Baptist Tradition | 143 |
Restoration Ideology among Early Episcopal Evangelicals | 153 |
Perplexity over a Protean Principle A Response | 171 |
Indigenous American Traditions | 179 |
The Reality of the Restoration and the Restoration Ideal in the Mormon Tradition | 181 |
Playing for Keeps The Primitivist Impulse in Early Pentecostalism | 196 |
The Restoration Ideal in the Churches of Christ | 220 |
Comparing Three Approaches to Restorationism A Response | 232 |
Contending for the Faith Once Delivered Primitivist Impulses in American Fundamentalism | 99 |
Primitivism in Fundamentalism and American Biblical Scholarship A Response | 120 |
European Traditions in America | 129 |
Biblical Primitivism in Early American Methodism | 131 |
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