In my 17 November 2009 comments on Butler's Lives of the Saints I briefly discussed the Protestant understanding of "saint." Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Catholic Archbishop of Boston, admitted in 1968 that the idea of Protestant saints may seem to be "novel." In his preface to Profiles of Protestant Saints, he acknowledged that Paul declared all believers to be saints and also that God raises up whomever He pleases to perform whatever tasks He wishes.
Profiles of protestant saints was written by a Roman Catholic for a Roman Catholic audience and details the stories of nineteen individuals who were raised up by God for service in times which called for that service. It was as if just the right person were placed in just the right situation at just the right time. Exactly.
Those profiled include Martin Luther (1483-1546), a disgruntled Roman Catholic priest; Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), who evangelized Burma; Alexander Campbell (1788-1866), the founder of the Disciples of Christ; Richard Allen (1760-1831), a highly educated Eighteenth Century African-American theologian and church founder; and Samuel Schereschewsky (1831-1906), a Lithuanian rabbinical student whose last words were, "I thank thee, Lord, for the scholarship, and for the time - and for the finger." You'll have to read the book.
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Christian Denominations: Disciples of Christ
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
222 South Downey Avenue
Indianapolis, Ind. 46219
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) arose from a merger of the followers of Alexander Campbell (Christian Church) and Barton W. Stone (Disciples of Christ). Sidney Rigdon was a major leader in the movement until he quarreled with Alexander Campbell and left to join with Joseph Smith in Ohio. Campbell denounced The Book of Mormon as heretical.
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