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Tag Archives: Alexander Campbell
The Fork in the Road: Moral vs. Positive Law: Background
Guy wrote a comment asking why I take such a dim view of positive law (and I do). I knocked out a quick comment, but I think the topic bears a more thorough explanation. It’s going to take several posts … Continue reading
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Replanting a Denomination: The Original Restoration Plea
A reader posted a comment, suggesting that the original Restoration Plea was not as I characterized it in the last post of this series, asserting – In actuallity, the concept of teaching “the correct doctrines of baptism, worship, and church … 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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