Volume 36       July 2005       No. 4

THEME  OF THIS  ISSUE: 

THE CHURCH, THE FALLING AWAY,  AND THE RESTORATION 

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

1 EDITORIAL……………… Alan E. Highers

    Five Periods of Church History

4 The Beginning of the Church Dan Winkler

9 A Great Falling Away Prophesied David R. Pharr

13 ………. The Development of the Papacy  Hugh Fulford

17 ………………. Was Peter the First Pope? David L. Lipe

22 ……………………… Is the Pope Infallible? Phil Sanders

26 …………….. The Protestant Reformation    Woodson

31 The Emergence of Denominationalism  Gary McDade

36 ………………… The Restoration Principle Ancil Jenkins

41…………. Can We Understand the Bible? David Sain

45 ………… The Plea of Churches of Christ    Wendell Winkler