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The Churches of Christ in Christian Union (CCCU) is a Wesleyan-Holiness and Restorationist Christian denomination. The CCCU has a presence in 15 U.S. states and several nations, with about 200 churches in the United States.〔http://www.cccuhq.org/e-books/doc_download/17-cccu-manual-2010〕 Ohio Christian University is its headquarters. ==History== The Churches of Christ in Christian Union became a separate denomination in 1909 when five ministers and about 60 lay people were separated from the steadily declining Christian Union headquartered in Ohio. While the Christian Union was originally formed in 1864 to protest to the Methodist Episcopal Church's support of the American Civil War, the CCCU was forged by a dispute over doctrine in 1909. Those holding to a Wesleyan view on sanctification were censured by the leadership of the South Ohio Conference of the Christian Union during a period of time in which many other Holiness movement supporters were at loggerheads within established denominations.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=lk8_ARNz-dYC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=reformed+methodist+church+northeast+district&source=bl&ots=007gXBVaNV&sig=C3YYl8yLtYzM9oX7Eiu7d2CM1QE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tTFtVLTcNYa8yQSAjoHIBg&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=reformed%20methodist%20church%20northeast%20district&f=false〕 Adherents of Holiness movement teachings contended that Christian Union was dedicated to unity on a few basic principles and should have been able to tolerate Holiness beliefs within its ranks as a matter of Christian liberty. Opponents of the Holiness teaching, however, saw it as a divisive movement that contradicted the Christian Union’s central commitment to harmony. In the Christian Union's development from Methodist dissenters to a Restorationist denomination, it picked up many Presbyterian traits (as did the Churches of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), etc.). The leadership of the Christian Union did not see things through the Wesleyan-Arminian theological prism but through a more Calvinist lens and, therefore, a non-Holiness perspective. When the national organization of the Christian Union decided the censured members could only remain as part of the South Ohio Annual Conference, the members of the new group found themselves without a denominational home and thus pursued an independent course.〔Sidwell, Mark: "The Churches of Christ in Christian Union: A Fundamentalism File Research Report," Bob Jones University, pg. 2 http://libguides.bju.edu/ld.php?content_id=919108〕 The new organization was established under the leadership of James H. McKibban on September 20, 1909, and set up headquarters at Washington Court House, Ohio. By 1915, 40 churches belonged to CCCU. The number of churches increased to 60 by 1925. Most of the Churches of Christ in Christian Union's activities, including camp meetings, new church plants, and evangelistic campaigns, focused on Ohio, although revivals were held in Tennessee and New York. In 1952, the like-minded Reformed Methodist Church merged with the CCCU to form its Northeast District. As common among many Wesleyan-Holiness bodies of the time, the CCCU called for the suffrage of women, the end to secret societies, and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco products. The organization also formed institutions of higher education, including Circleville Bible College (now Ohio Christian University), which opened in 1948 in Circleville, Ohio.〔http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Churches_of_Christ_in_Christian_Union?rec=2425〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Churches of Christ in Christian Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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