Who We Are 

The Institute for the Study of Christian Origins was established in Tübingen, Germany in the early 1960s. Its purpose is to encourage and promote research in the early church and to apply that research to the church today. The Institute is sponsored by the European Evangelistic Society (EES) and works in cooperation with the Protestant Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.
The Institute is registered in Germany as a non-profit organization/association; as such, it is able to accept tax-deductible donations.

The Institute Board

Dr. Dennis Lindsay (Chair) -- Dr. Tony Twist, Indianapolis (Deputy Chair) -- Birgit Hallmann (Treasurer & Secretary) --Megan Herring — Katharina Penner -- Loren Stuckenbruck - Richard Justice -- David Wright

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Satzung Verein (German) Articles of the Association (English)

The EES Board

Tony Twist (President) -- Richard M. Justice Jr. (Vice President) -- Dennis Lindsay -- Don Thompson (Treasurer) -- Megan Herring (Secretary) — Pat Bonner -- Meego Remmel (Chair)-- Loren Stuckenbruck -- Christian Witzmann

The Institute is sponsored by the European Evangelistic Society (EES). EES is a ministry of a group of churches known historically as the Stone-Campbell Movement (or Restoration Movement) which originated in the USA in the early 19th century.  These churches today are called the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ.

* For further information:

• Douglas A. Foster et al, eds., Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (Wm B. Eerdmans, 2004)

• D. Newell Williams et al, eds., The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History (Chalice, 2013)

• https://www.oikoumene.org/en/church-families/disciples-of-christ-churches-of-christ
  http://www.discipleshistory.org/history/brief-history-stone-campbell-tradition
  

• Resources (digital resources of former lectures and publications of the EES in Tübingen)