[quote]To grasp Campbell's primitivism even better, we should note that he focused his restorationist lens only on the New Testament. In fact, he narrowed the focus further even than that. He divided the Bible into three dispensations: the patriarchal (from Adam to Moses), the Mosaic (from Moses to Peter's sermon on the Day of Pentecost, recorded in Acts 2), and the Christian (from Pentecost to the last judgment). Since he maintained that the Christian dispensation alone provided the pattern for the primitive church, Campbell essentially held that neither the Old Testament nor the four Gospels carried normative weight for the church in his day.27
See Campbell, Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch, ed. W. T. Moore (St. Louis: Christian Publishing, 1867), pp. 266-304. On Campbell's ‘‘canon within a canon,’’ see M. Eugene Boring, ‘‘The Formation of a Tradition: Alexander Campbell and the New Testament,’’ Disciples Theological Digest 2 (1987): 5-62.
27 See Campbell, Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch, ed. W. T. Moore (St. Louis: Christian Publishing, 1867), pp. 266-304. On Campbell's ‘‘canon within a canon,’’ see M. Eugene Boring, ‘‘The Formation of a Tradition: Alexander Campbell and the New Testament,’’ Disciples Theological Digest 2 (1987): 5-62.
Richard T. Hughes, Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America (Abilene, TX: Leafwood Publishers, 2011), 5.
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