1) Harding Graduate School
2) IBC (now Heritage Christian University though all the small Independent Christian Church Colleges made the cut)
3) Lockney Christian College
4) Gunter Bible Collge
5) Southern Christian University
6) The American Bible Union has no seperate entry

There are no entries for the following persons:

1) J. N. Armstrong (there is a photo in the Harding College article)
2) N. L. Clark
3) T. M. Allen
4) E.M. Borden
5) J.M. Barnes
6) James Challen
7) Claude Witty nor the Murch-Witty Unity Meetings (which really surprised me!)
8) John R. Howard
9) J. D. Thomas (though a number of contemporary Disciples are included and Thomas warranted one)
10) M. C. Kurfees
11) B. A. Hinsdale
12) Yater Tant
13) L. S. White
14) T. W. Brents

In the beginning essay on historiography David Edwin Harrell’s Churches of Christ in the 20th Century is not mentioned at all.

There are some great lacuna in the ESCM. Some major ones. There is an article on gays and lesbians but not some of these. But no book is perfect and this was certainly a labor of love on Foster’s part and the others. I am grateful but sometimes I have scratch my head and say “what was the logic in not including this??”

Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
http://stoned-campbelldisciple.blogspot.com/

Interesting info. I’ve read that many feel the Encyclopedia is slanted towards mainline protestantism…is that why people like Whiteside were an afterthought?

It is a great book, I’m very glad to have it. I have a feeling it will be very helpful as I start my studies in Church History.

-Clarke

However, it is still a great piece of work and truly a labor of love. There will be no money made off the book. Plenty of headaches for sure but no dough.

Shalom,
Bobby Valentine