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.
 

Introduction by: Richard T. Hughes
Contributions by: C. Leonard Allen, Henry Warner Bowden, Theodore Dwight Bozeman, Joel A. Carpenter, Robert T. Handy, David E. Harrell, Samuel S. Hill, E. Brooks Holifield, David L. Holmes, Richard T. Hughes, Bill J. Humble, Sidney E. Mead, Mark A. Noll, Thomas H. Olbricht, Albert C. Outler, Jan Shipps, Winton U Solberg, Grant Wacker