Disciples of Christ
- Grew from
- Restorationist churches
- From
- 1832 AD
- Origin
- The Ohio valley
- Confession
- The Design 1968 AD
The wing of the same movement that kept instruments and organised societies, and which took the opposite road from its origins: a body founded to end denominational division became one of the most active participants in twentieth-century ecumenism, and formally organised itself as a denomination in 1968.
What marks it out
Weekly communion, open to any baptised Christian rather than to members only, and usually presided over by lay elders. Baptism by immersion, while receiving members baptised otherwise — the practical compromise that unity cost. Notably reluctant to make any doctrinal test a condition of fellowship.
Alongside it
Also from Restorationist churches.
In the record
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1730–1840 AD Revival
The Great Awakenings
Waves of revival preaching produced the Methodist movement and, later, the Baptist and Restorationist expansion in America.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.