C H R I S T A D E L P H I A N R E S E A R C H

An exhaustive and authoritative investigation into the Christadelphians with links from their own sources as well as insights from former
members. Complete examination of their history, organisation, theology, practices, and the challenges they face.
Documents
Doctor John Thomas
- On the Need to Prove all Things
- Proposal to Start the Advocate Magazine
- Confession and Abjuration
- The Bible as the Only Authority
- Describing Former Brethren
- On Repentance
- Disfellowshipping Quotes
- On a Pre-Adamic Creation
- Constitution of the Royal Association of Believers in New York
- On Exclusiveness
- Return of Christ by 1866
Robert Roberts
- Exact Knowledge and Obedience Necessary for Salvation
- Introduction to the Bible Companion
- Providence and the Independent Mind of John Thomas
- Why the True Doctrines were Lost
- Robert Roberts Answering a Question on the Holy Spirit
Bryan R Wilson
Other Documents
- Demons and Pigs, by Branson Hopkins, describing an incident where a “difficult passage” came up in a discussion group at a congregation in New Zealand.
- Introduction to Phanerosis
- The Early Creedal Flexibility of the Christadelphians, by Andrew R. Wilson.
- High Church Christadelphians, an article by J.J. Hadley.
- Doctor Thomas on Free Enquiry and Other Matters, an article from the Fraternal Visitor, November 1894.
- A List of Non-Christadelphian Doctrines by those claimed as brethren in the books by Alan Eyre, by Ruth McHaffie.
- How Robert Roberts Altered the Statement of Faith by Stephen Cook, in reference to the “inspiration controversy” in 1884 which was a significant turning point for the movement.
- A Glance at the History and Mystery of Christadelphianism - an article by David King, a contemporary of John Thomas in the American Restoration Movement.
- John Thomas Rediscovered the Truth - historical quotes from The Christadelphian magazine showing the historical Christadelphian belief the founder, John Thomas, “rediscovered the Truth.”
- Survey Report on the relationship of people with the Christadelphian Community by the Lively Stones Collective.
Online Books
- The Early History of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in Britain - a book written in three volumes by William Norrie.
- The Gospel Banner and Millennial Advocate 1867 - a collection of periodicals published by Benjamin Wilson, a former associate of John Thomas soon after they separated over whether the saints were to be raised mortal or immortal.
- Satan the Devil - a comprehensive refutation of the the normal Christadelphian view that references to the devil and Satan in the Bible are the result of translator bias and misunderstood personalisation. The connected claim is that the Biblical authors simply meant mental illness when they referred to demons. Submitted by a site reader.
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- JOHN THOMAS
- PROVE ALL THINGS
- PROPOSAL FOR ADVOCATE
- CONFESSION AND ABJURATION, JOHN THOMAS
- JOHN THOMAS ON THE BIBLE AS THE ONLY AUTHORITY
- JOHN THOMAS ON REPENTANCE
- DISFELLOWSHIPPING QUOTES
- PRE-ADAMIC CREATION
- JOHN THOMAS ON FORMER BRETHREN
- EARLY CONSTITUTION
- ON BEING EXCLUSIVE
- RETURN BY 1866
- ROBERT ROBERTS
- EXACT KNOWLEDGE AND OBEDIENCE
- INTRODUCTION BIBLE COMPANION
- PROVIDENCE AND THE INDEPENDENT MIND OF JOHN THOMAS
- ROBERT ROBERTS ON WHY THE TRUE DOCTRINES WERE LOST
- THE RETURN OF THE LAW
- ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
- BRYAN R WILSON
- PATRIARCHALISM AND WOMEN
- POVERTY AND RECRUITMENT
- INTRODUCTION TO PHANEROSIS
- DEMONS AND PIGS, BY BRANSON HOPKINS
- CREEDAL FLEXIBILITY
- HIGH CHURCH CHRISTADELPHIANS
- DR THOMAS - FREE ENQUIRY
- BELIEFS OF FORMER BRETHREN
- ALTERING THE STATEMENT
- HISTORY MYSTERY
- REDISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH
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- THE EARLY HISTORY-NORRIE
- GOSPEL BANNER 1867
- SATAN THE DEVIL
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- SPIRIT AND TRUTH
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- Site Overview
- SITE MAP
- RESEARCH BLOG
- NEW STUFF!!
- SITE RELEVANCE
- HELPS FOR RESEARCH
- CHRISTADELPHIAN HISTORY
- ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEM
- SOCIAL ASPECTS
- BELIEF SYSTEM
- DOCUMENTS
- JOHN THOMAS
- PROVE ALL THINGS
- PROPOSAL FOR ADVOCATE
- CONFESSION AND ABJURATION, JOHN THOMAS
- JOHN THOMAS ON THE BIBLE AS THE ONLY AUTHORITY
- JOHN THOMAS ON REPENTANCE
- DISFELLOWSHIPPING QUOTES
- PRE-ADAMIC CREATION
- JOHN THOMAS ON FORMER BRETHREN
- EARLY CONSTITUTION
- ON BEING EXCLUSIVE
- RETURN BY 1866
- ROBERT ROBERTS
- EXACT KNOWLEDGE AND OBEDIENCE
- INTRODUCTION BIBLE COMPANION
- PROVIDENCE AND THE INDEPENDENT MIND OF JOHN THOMAS
- ROBERT ROBERTS ON WHY THE TRUE DOCTRINES WERE LOST
- THE RETURN OF THE LAW
- ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
- BRYAN R WILSON
- PATRIARCHALISM AND WOMEN
- POVERTY AND RECRUITMENT
- INTRODUCTION TO PHANEROSIS
- DEMONS AND PIGS, BY BRANSON HOPKINS
- CREEDAL FLEXIBILITY
- HIGH CHURCH CHRISTADELPHIANS
- DR THOMAS - FREE ENQUIRY
- BELIEFS OF FORMER BRETHREN
- ALTERING THE STATEMENT
- HISTORY MYSTERY
- REDISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH
- ONLINE BOOKS
- THE EARLY HISTORY-NORRIE
- GOSPEL BANNER 1867
- SATAN THE DEVIL
- PICTURES
- FORMER CHRISTADELPHIANS
- SPIRIT AND TRUTH
- LINKS
- MEDIA
- RECEIVE UPDATES
- GUESTBOOK
- ABOUT MYSELF
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UnBELIEVABLE
THE TRINITY HURDLE
NOVEL: HOLY BIBLE
Christadelphian Quotes
You lay a great stress upon facts throughout your letters, and are incessant in your demand that I should attend to them. This is good; but facts have to be rightly put together, and then you must have all the facts. I do not think you put the facts rightly together, and you leave out some, I am sure.
(Robert Roberts, a Christadelphian Pioneer, quoted
by Ruth McHaffie in Brethren Indeed)
The Spirit of liberty, based upon the law of faith, is the Spirit of Christ; and this spirit all the Sons of God are privileged to possess, and having it, to breathe. I claim the right of exercising this privilege, as well as my contemporaries; and I require of them that they should do to me as once they loudly required others to do to them…
(written by John Thomas, the founder of the Christadelphians, when he was against creeds in
The Apostolic Advocate magazine, August 1836)
(John Thomas, from Apostacy Unveiled, p. 137,
quoted in The Christadelphian Magazine, January 1906)
Must a man never progress? If he discovers an error in his premises, must he for ever hold to it for the sake of consistency? May such a calamity never befall me! Rather let me change every day, till I get right at last.
(from a letter written by John Thomas in 1848, quoted by Robert Roberts, in Dr. Thomas: His Life and Work)
Do what is right; be valiant for the Truth; teach it without compromise, and all lovers of the Truth will approve you. For all others you need not care a rush!
(from a letter written by John Thomas to Robert Roberts and published in The Christadelphian magazine, February 1866)