Founding Vocation & Future Vision: The Self-Understanding of the Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ

In 1906, the religious fellowship known as the churches of Christ formally separated from the Disciples of Christ. The schism within the Disciples came as a result of growing dissatisfaction that conservative and progressive Disciples had with each other. It's an oversimplification, but the separation was mainly along geographical lines that corresponded with the North-South division the United States suffered which led to the Civil War. Ninety years after the formal separation, the Disciples of Christ Historical Society invited scholars Anthony L. Dunnavant (Disciples) and Richard T. Hughes (churches of Christ) to participate in the 1995 and 1997 Reed Lectures "to explore the distinctive perceptions of the founding vision and how that vision has evolved in the two fellowships." The book is a recording of those lectures.