“Perhaps the finest of the recent books on the church in the twentieth
century....concise but thorough, sympathetic but objective, and cogently
argued....goes beyond the mere chronicling of events to argue an important
thesis, that the first half of the twentieth century was a period when
Churches of Christ in Tennessee shored up their self-consciousness of a separate identity.”
-- Richard Hughes (1982)

“Well-argued and objective...a scholarly presentation.”
-- Earl Edwards (1999)

“Relevant for the present situation.”
-- E. Claude Gardner (1999)