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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...

This was disconcerting to some of their colaborers. An editor in Tennessee complained that “There seems to be an unnecessary jealousy existing among some of our brethren in regard to whom credit is due in commencing the present Reformation, father Stone22 or brother Campbell.”23 The claim to priority was however the least of their disputes. One practical difference was whether those within the Movement should be called Christians, which Stone adamantly insisted upon, or Disciples, which Campbell
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