The Scriptures

The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ)

Denomination·Founded 1809 CE·About 1,113,362 members in roughly 11,790 congregations in the United States, from the directory maintained since 1973 by 21st Century Christian and now the Church Research Council. Both figures have fallen every year since the 1990s. Substantial churches also exist in Nigeria, Ghana, India and Brazil, counted separately and not reliably.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) → 1 branch

the texts that carry it — language, era, and use Part of Stories & Scripture →

Command, example, necessary inference. The hermeneutic that does the work: a practice is authorised by an explicit command, by an apostolic example, or by an inference the text forces. It is a legal method applied to a library of letters, and the movement's divisions are almost all disputes about how binding an example is. Language English, read as lawComposed The New Testament only, for church order — the Old is history rather than pattern Open the book — context →