Evangelicalism
& the Stone-Campbell Movement
Edited by
William
R. Baker (InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. 2002). 256 pages.
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing
activity among
scholars in the Stone-Campbell movement and scholars in the evangelical
world and in the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). This book
presents
key essays presented to the ETS by restoration movement scholars and
responses
from an evangelical perspective. The essays are on the following
topics:
- Christian Churches (Independent): Are We
Evangelical? by
William R.
Baker
- Churches of Christ (A Capella): Are We
Evangelical? by Edward
P. Myers
- The Role of Faith in Conversion by Jack Cottrell
- The Role of Faith in Conversion: Balancing Faith,
Christian
Experience
& Baptism by John Mark Hicks
- The Role of the Holy Spirit in Conversion: An
Examination of
the New
Testament
by Tom Alexander
- The Role of the Holy Spirit in Conversion: Why
Restorationists
Appear
to
Be out of the Evangelical Mainstream by Robert C. Kurka
- An Evangelical Response to Alexander and Kurka by
Craig L.
Blomberg
- The Role of Baptism in Conversion: Israel's
Promises Fulfilled
for the
Believer in Jesus by Jon A. Weatherly
- The Role of Baptism in Conversion: Baptism &
Its
Subsctitutes as
Rituals
of Initiation in American Protestantism by James Baird
- An Evangelical Response to Baird & Weatherly
by H. Wayne
House
- The Biblical Doctrine of the Church by Everett
Ferguson
- Restoring God's House: Ecclesiology in Church of
Christ (A
Cappella) by
Gary Holloway
- Biblical Models of the Church: Contributions of
the
Stone-Campbell
Movement
to the Church of the Twenty-First Century by Robert Lowery
- An Evangelical Response to Ferguson, Holloway and
Lowery:
Restoring a
Trinitarian
Understanding of the Church in Practice by Stanley J. Grenz
The interested reader will notice that these topics
(conversion
theology
and the church) are very close to the heart of the restoration ideals
of
Campbell and Stone, and close to the heart of restoration movement
churches
themselves.
These essays are presented in a readable yet scholarly
manner, from
a variety of perspectives: Church of Christ, Christian Church, and
evangelical.
Such a dialog is necessary and beneficial. To those of us in the ICC,
this
discussion helps us take a step back from all of the day-to-day matters
and gain a much-needed scholarly and historical perspective of these
topics.
Copyright © 2003 John
Engler.
All rights
reserved.
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