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Category Archives: Restoration Movement
Common Cause: B. C. Goodpasture, The Gospel Advocate, and Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century
A friend of mine pointed me to a doctoral dissertion, available in full text online, by John C. Hardin, titled Common Cause: B. C. Goodpasture, The Gospel Advocate, and Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century. It’s an excellent read … Continue reading
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Baptism: Thomas Campbell on Baptism
“Prospectus of a Religious Reformation” I stumbled across an 1829 tract by Thomas Campbell called “Prospectus of a Religious Reformation” buried in The Memoirs of Thomas Campbell. It was evidently published only as a tract until The Memoirs of Thomas … Continue reading
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Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: Landmarkism
Many of the second generation of the Restoration Movement misunderstood the Campbells. In particular, Moses Lard and Benjamin Franklin (great nephew of the Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin) taught a much narrower doctrine of salvation (soterology), sometimes insisting on near-perfect doctrine … Continue reading
Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: The Missionary Society
Late in his career, Alexander Campbell argued strenuously for a national missionary society. In many states, Restoration Movement churches had already organized societies (a 19th Century term for a nonprofit organization) to send out missionaries and to do other good … Continue reading
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Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: Baptism, Primitivism, and Heresy, Part 2
This brings us to the famous Lunenburg letter correspondence. Some of Campbell’s early writing often seems to suggest that he considered baptism essential to salvation. And this was conventional wisdom within much of the Movement. However, Stone had never considered … Continue reading
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