The Christadelphian is a Bible

Bible

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 magazine

Magazine

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 published monthly by The Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association (CMPA). It states that it is 'A magazine dedicated wholly to the hope of Israel' and, according to the magazine website

Website

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, it 'reflects the teachings, beliefs and activities of the Christadelphians

Christadelphians

Christadelphians is a Christian group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century...

'.

History

The Christadelphian magazine started life as The Ambassador of the Coming Age in 1864, edited by Robert Roberts

Robert Roberts (Christadelphian)

Robert Roberts is the man generally considered to have continued the work of organising and establishing the Christadelphian movement founded by Dr. John Thomas...

. It ran as The Ambassador of the Coming Age until 1869, when the name was changed to The Christadelphian. Subsequent editors include C.C. Walker

Charles Curwen Walker

Charles Curwen Walker was a Christadelphian writer and editor of The Christadelphian Magazine from 1898 to 1937.-Life:C. C. Walker was born near Diss, Depwade Rural District, Norfolk on February 18, 1856, son of a landowner. His middle name "Curwen" indicates his descent from the aristocratic...

, John Carter

John Carter (Christadelphian)

John Carter was editor of The Christadelphian from 1937 to 1962.Carter was the third editor of the Christadelphian after the founding editor Robert Roberts and his successor Charles Curwen Walker...

, Louis Sargent, Alfred Nicholls, Michael Ashton and Andrew Bramhill. The new editor of the Christadelphian is Andrew Bramhill after Michael Ashton stepped down in Summer 2011. Andrew starts his new position in December 2011 after relocating to the Birmingham area.

Content

The magazine contains a wide variety of articles, including exhortations from Breaking of Bread services, studies of Biblical characters, articles on Christian living, reviews of Bible related books/DVD

DVD

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s/etc., and comment on relevant current events in relation to Bible prophecy

Bible prophecy

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. Items for publication are produced by potentially any Christadelphian, pending the editorial process. At the back of the magazine is a section in which is printed news from each ecclesia including baptism

Baptism

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s, deaths and ecclesial events.

Publisher

The publisher of the magazine is The Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association (CMPA). All members of the committee are active members of Christadelphian congregations in the UK subscribing to the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith (BASF). Subscriptions and previews of the magazine are available on The Christadelphian website.

Other publications

Back issues (from 1864-2000) are available from the CMPA on CD-ROM

CD-ROM

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, and an audio edition of The Christadelphian (2006 onwards) is available on cassette, audio and MP3

MP3

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 CD. In addition to the magazine, other literature is published by the CMPA, including edited reprints of articles already published in The Christadelphian; for example: -

• The Letter to the Hebrews by John Carter - a study, on the Letter to the Hebrews
  Epistle to the Hebrews
  The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament. Its author is not known.The primary purpose of the Letter to the Hebrews is to exhort Christians to persevere in the face of persecution. The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of Christ and his...
  
  , that first appeared as articles in The Christadelphian from 1933-1935.
• Portrait of the Saint by John Marshall - a study on the Letter to the Ephesians, the majority of which first appeared as articles in The Christadelphian from 1966-1967.
• Chronicles of the Kings by Michael Ashton - a study, on the Books of Chronicles
  Books of Chronicles
  The Books of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible. In the Masoretic Text, it appears as the first or last book of the Ketuvim . Chronicles largely parallels the Davidic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings...
  
  , that first appeared as articles in The Christadelphian from 1998-2000.

A complete list of books is available on the website. In addition, a number of reviews of these books (previously published in 'The Christadelphian' and 'The Testimony

The Testimony

The Testimony is a Bible magazine published monthly by the Christadelphians .-History:The Testimony was established in 1931 as 'a magazine for the study and defence of the Holy Scripture' and that, according to the magazine's website, remains its aim today...

' magazines) are available, together with some books available to read online.

The CMPA also publishes a number of pamphlet

Pamphlet

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s detailing various Christadelphians beliefs; for example: -

• Jesus: God the Son or Son of God? Does the Bible teach the Trinity (by Fred Pearce).
• The Miracle of the Bible: The Word of God in Print (by Reg Carr
  Reginald Carr (librarian)
  Reginald Philip Carr is an English librarian, who was Bodley's Librarian from 1997 until his retirement in 2006...
  
  ).
• Getting to Know God: What the Bible Reveals (by Fred Pearce).

Some of these pamphlets are now available for viewing or printing off for personal use on The Christadelphian website. Over time the complete set will be made available, as each is reprinted. They can also be ordered online from the same website.

External links

• The Christadelphian magazine homepage