Written Works

Books by Robert L. Hurley

Faith, history, the early church, and the people and movements that shaped Christianity.

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The Life of the Apostle Philip

Philip: Apostle, Evangelist, Servant!

Travel with Philip Ben-Jacimus, of Bethsaida, in a novel about his life and the beginning of Christianity. Readers follow the timeline of the Apostles and the Church and encounter fresh ideas and additions to the story of the early church during its first ninety years.

Robert invites readers to get to know the 5th Apostle, Philip, and his family as he walked with Jesus and served him for the remainder of his life. The novel grows out of Robert's long study of the Bible, church history, and the beginnings of Christianity.

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Church History & Restoration

Restoring the Restoration

The Christian Church: What Went Wrong?

Well-meaning reformers have been trying to restore the church since the days of the Apostles. Robert surveys major restoration efforts across Christian history, from reform movements within Catholicism through the Protestant Reformation and into the American Restoration tradition.

The book examines figures and movements including George Fox, John Wesley, Methodists, Baptists, and the Stone-Campbell movement. Robert looks at both successes and failures, including the membership losses experienced by many Restoration churches in recent decades.

His central concern is practical: what can today's churches learn from the past, and how can Christians build strong worshiping communities that draw on the power of God in their lives?

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Also from Robert

The Restoration Movement still matters

Robert has also written publicly about the Restoration tradition and the role of spirituality and the Holy Spirit in Stone-Campbell churches.

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