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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...

most likely to “profess religion” at a sacramental meeting. Stone reported that the “friends of the Confession” responded to the success of the Baptists and Methodists in “drawing away disciples” by boldly preaching the doctrines of the Confession of Faith and using “their most potent arguments in their defence.” In response, the Methodist and Baptist preachers began to preach their distinctive doctrines. Stone claimed that, in the ensuing confessional strife, the “friends of the Confession” were
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