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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...

dissent. It is better, he insisted, to root out immoralities than to extirpate sects. He was among the first to call for a separation of church and state, which even the Reformation had not called for. The care of souls does not belong to the magistrate and the affairs of state is not the business of the church, he declared. He gave a definition of the church, which is echoed in Campbell’s writings: “A church, then, I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own
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