Word and Work is a religious

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associated with those Churches of Christ that hold to a

premillennial Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. Premillennialism is based upon a literal interpretat ...

eschatology Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or of the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that nega ...

.Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, ''The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, , , 854 pages, entry on ''Word and Work''Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, ''The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, , , 854 pages, entry on ''Eschatology'' It was founded in 1908 by Dr. David Lipscomb Watson.

History

During the period 1912 to 1913, the ''Word and Work'' began publishing articles written by Charles M. Neal supporting dispensational millennialism. In 1913 Watson sold the journal to Stanford Chambers, who became the sole editor. Watson, a

postmillennialist In Christian eschatology (end-times theology), postmillennialism, or postmillenarianism, is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ's second coming as occurring ''after'' (Latin ''post-'') the "Millennium", ...

, was disturbed by the increasing editorial emphasis on premillennialism, and later tried in two unsuccessful lawsuits to regain control of the journal. Chambers sold ''Word and Work'' to Robert Henry Boll in 1916. Boll had been a controversial front page editor of the ''

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'', writing articles on biblical prophecy during his tenure beginning in 1909; he was forced to resign in 1915 as the result of a developing controversy over his millennial views and the importance he placed on

biblical prophecy Bible prophecy or biblical prophecy comprises the passages of the Bible that are claimed to reflect communications from God to humans through prophets. Jews and Christians usually consider the biblical prophets to have received revelations from G ...

in the study of the Bible.Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, ''The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, , , 854 pages, entry on ''Boll, Robert Henry'' His eschatological focus came into conflict with the church-centered views of other Church of Christ leaders of the time. The reaction to Boll's premillennialism helped to define and solidify the amillennial view among the mainstream of the Churches of Christ. Under Boll's leadership the ''Word and Work'' became the journalistic voice for premillennial Churches of Christ. Boll also used the journal to promote foreign mission work. E. L. Jorgenson and J. R. Clark succeeded Boll as editors when he died in 1956. They were followed by Gordon R. Linscott in 1962, William Robert Heid in 1976 and Alex Wilson in 1986.

References

External links

''Word and Work'' online
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