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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...

It is deemed appropriate, therefore, in this second edition to state our case more fully and to weigh the question more deeply, What was the genius of the Movement? Was it restoration or reformation, or in some manner both? To what extent has this question contributed to the tension that has long prevailed between restoration and unity? Restorationism (sometimes called primitivism) generally has these characteristics: (1) the true church apostatized and ceased to exist; (2) the various denominations
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