托马斯·H·奥尔布里希特很享受他在密苏里州的成长经历。在这本书中，他讲述了他在30年代和40年代的许多经历的细节。作者对奥扎克地形、社会生活和文化的多个方面感兴趣，并经常将其置于历史背景中。他以多方面的具体论述，阐述了母亲、父亲和大家庭的影响，其中包括爱尔兰、苏格兰和德国血统的人。他不仅帮助祖父经营加油站杂货店，还帮助叔叔经营农场。由于他的承诺和教育，他对奥扎克基督教堂的宗教活动给予了特别关注。最后，他详细阐述了在他年轻的时候，经历第二次世界大战和随之而来的和平是什么样的。“在未来的几年里，历史学家和感兴趣的观察家们，如果研究二十世纪基督教堂所表达的斯通·坎贝尔复原运动，迟早会遇到汤姆·奥尔布里希特博士。这位杰出的神学家、教士、历史学家，以及更多的人，通过他的教学和写作影响了一代又一代的人，给他投下了长长的阴影。这本书让我们罕见地瞥见了汤姆在密苏里州度过的成长岁月，以及他热爱的奥扎克群岛。“–Royce Money，阿比林基督教大学校长”“这本书是对美国乡村宗教的美妙记忆，其特点是真实性、经济现实主义、不受影响的虔诚和对改善的强烈希望。许多老古董的读者会喜欢这本书熟悉的韵律。许多年轻的读者会珍惜这些“过去的日子”感谢汤姆给我们讲了这么生动的故事。“–Walter Brueggemann，哥伦比亚神学院”“Tom Olbricht写了一本关于大萧条和第二次世界大战期间在密苏里州南部和阿肯色州北部的奥扎克乡村长大的私人回忆录，读起来很有趣，尤其是对那些在同一时期长大的人来说。“–Carl H.Stem，德克萨斯理工大学罗尔斯商学院名誉院长”“是什么力量汇聚在一起，造就了一种幸福的生活？是什么让一个人忠于根、传统、家庭和朋友？是什么驱使一个人接受基督教信仰的中心主题作为生活、爱和工作的标准？密苏里州的记忆从来没有假装解决这些问题。尽管如此，那些了解汤姆的人会在这几页中找到这些问题的一些答案，因为他们遇到了帮助创造这个真正非凡的人的力量。“——理查德·T·休斯，立普斯科姆大学圣经与事工学院驻校学者托马斯·H·奥尔布里希特在密苏里州的塞耶和奥尔顿长大。他在伊利诺伊州北部获得学位，在爱荷华州和哈佛神学院获得研究生学位。他是佩珀丁大学杰出的宗教荣誉教授。他和妻子多萝西住在新罕布什尔州埃克塞特的里弗伍兹退休社区。他写过或编辑过25本书。奥尔布里希特是保罗·C·纳格尔晚年的朋友，他出版了《密苏里：历史》。
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Missouri Memories, 1934-1947
Thomas H. Olbricht relishes his Missouri upbringing. In this book he narrates the details of his many experiences in the 1930s and 40s. The author was interested in multiple aspects of Ozark terrain, social life, and culture, and often situates them in their historical setting. He writes with multifaceted concretion regarding the influence of his mother, father, and his extended family, which included persons of Irish, Scottish, and German heritages. He not only helped with his grandfather’s gas station-grocery but also his uncle’s farming operations. Because of his commitment and education he has given special attention to religious activities in the Churches of Christ in the Ozarks. He ends by elaborating upon, in the region of his youth, what it was like to live through World War II and the peace that followed. “”For years to come, historians and interested observers who study the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement as expressed through twentieth-century Churches of Christ will sooner or later encounter Dr. Tom Olbricht. This towering theologian, churchman, historian, and much more, casts a long shadow as he has influenced generations of people through his teaching and writing. This volume gives us a rare glimpse into the formative years Tom spent in Missouri and the Ozarks that he loved.”” –Royce Money, Chancellor, Abilene Christian University “”This book is a wondrous memory of rural religious America that was marked by authenticity, economic realism, unaffected piety, and strong hope for betterment. Many readers of older vintage will love this reading for its familiar cadences. Many younger readers will cherish these ‘olden days.’ My thanks to Tom for such a vivid story so compellingly told to us.”” –Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary “”Tom Olbricht has written an intimate memoir of growing up in the rural Ozarks of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas during the Depression and World War II years that is just fun to read, especially for those who grew up during the same period.”” –Carl H. Stem, Dean Emeritus, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University “”What forces converge to produce a life well lived? What makes someone loyal to roots, tradition, family, and friends? What drives someone to embrace the central themes of the Christian faith as the standard for living, loving, and working? Missouri Memories never pretends to address these questions. Still, those who know Tom will discover in these pages some answers to those questions as they encounter the forces that helped create this truly extraordinary man.”” –Richard T. Hughes, Scholar in Residence, College of Bible and Ministry, Lipscomb University Thomas H. Olbricht grew up in Thayer and Alton, Missouri. He received a degree from Northern Illinois and graduate degrees from Iowa and Harvard Divinity School. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion, Pepperdine University. He and his wife Dorothy live in the Riverwoods Retirement Community in Exeter, New Hampshire. He has written or edited twenty-five books. Olbricht was a late in life friend of Paul C. Nagel who published Missouri: A History.
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