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Book SynopsisThe Stone-Campbell Movement was created in 1832 when Barton Stone's Christ-ians from the West merged with Alexander Campbell's Reforming Baptists. By the beginning of the Civil War it was the sixth largest religious movement in the United States, and in the twentieth century the movement split into the three main branches that exist today. In recent years, scholars from these branches have worked to better understand their nineteenth-century roots, creating the historical sub-field restoration history in which historians and other scholars debate the influence of Stone and Campbell on specific characteristics of the existing branches.Bringing new insight into that debate, Jim Cook uses the writings of both Stone and Campbell to show that Stone was not a viable leader of the movement after 1832 and that his ideas were not part of what influenced the twentieth-century branches of the movement. This study demonstrates that the debates going on between restoration historians are thus predi
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Stone Movement and the Campbell Movement Chapter Two: Alliance in Word Only Chapter Three: The Christian Connexion’s Stone Chapter Four: Stone’s Universalism, Campbell’s Particularism, and a Restoration Nostalgia at Home and Abroad Chapter Five: Pacifism, Poverty, and Exclusion Conclusion
