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The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Stone-Campbell Movement was a nineteenth-century movement that sought to unify Christians under one body and return to apostolic Christianity. Its focus was to disassociate from denominationalism and restore primitive Christianity. Its two prominent leaders, Barton W. Stone and Thomas Campbell originally started the restoration movements independently, but united their vision in 1832. While...

That statement of Campbell’s intention goes far in identifying the genius of the Movement: a reformation for the union of Christians and for the conversion of the world. Robert Richardson provides a more extended statement of the Movement’s intent when he described Campbell as “a pioneer on the road to peace and Christian union,” and went on to summarize his goal as: “to take the Bible as the only rule of faith and morals, to unite upon those facts and principles which are commonly received by all
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