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The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

With roots in British and American endeavors to restore apostolic Christianity, the Stone-Campbell Movement drew its inspiration from the independent efforts of nineteenth-century religious reformers Barton W. Stone and the father-son team of Thomas and Alexander Campbell. The union of these two movements in the 1830s and the growth of the new body thrust it into a place of significance in early...

the North; the Southern churches overwhelmingly were without instruments, so there was initially not much discussion. Opposition to instrumental music in the South was solidified under the influence of the Gospel Advocate and David Lipscomb, who among other things reasoned that the non-use of an instrument was “safe” ground. The a cappella practice in turn became part of the identity of the largely Southern Churches of Christ. The Christian Standard under Isaac Errett (1820–1888) tried to plot a
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