The Stone-Campbell Movement
Title | The Stone-Campbell Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Michael W. Casey |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781572331792 |
The religious reform tradition known as the Stone-Campbell movement came into being on the American frontier in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Named for its two principal founders, Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell, its purpose was twofold: to restore the church to the practice and teaching of the New Testament and, by this means, to find a basis for reuniting all Christians. Today, there are three major branches of the Stone-Campbell tradition: the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Churches of Christ, and Christian Churches/Churches of Christ. This volume brings together twenty-six essays drawn from the significant scholarship on the Stone-Campbell Movement that has flourished over the past twenty years. Reprinted from diverse scholarly journals and concentrating on historiographic issues, the essays consider such topics as the movement's origins, its influence on the presidency, its presence in Britain, and its multicultural aspects. In their introduction, Casey and Foster reveal the connections between this scholarship and larger issues of American history, religion, and culture. They note that David Edwin Harrell Jr., and Richard T. Hughes--both of whom are represented in the collection--have provided competing paradigms of the social and intellectual history of the movement: While Harrell defends the legitimacy of the sectarian "non-institutional" Churches of Christ, Hughes legitimizes the current progressive movement found in Churches of Christ. Casey and Foster propose six additional historiographic constructs as alternatives to those of Harrell and Hughes and assess each paradigm's implications for the scholarship of the movement. The first major survey of research on the Stone-Campbell movement in a quarter of a century, this book will also serve as an invaluable resource for scholars of American religious movements in general. The Editors: Michael W. Casey is professor the communication at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Battle Over Hermeneutics in the Stone-Campbell Movement, 1800-1870 and Saddlebags, City Streets, and Cyberspace: A History of Preaching in the Churches of Christ. Douglas A. Foster is associate professor of church history and director of the Center for Restoration Studies at Abilene Christian University. He is author of Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? Churches of Christ Face the Twenty-First Century and co-author of The Crux of the Matter: Crisis, Tradition, and the Future of Churches of Christ. The Contributors: Peter Ackers, Louis Billington, Monroe Billington, Paul M. Blowers, Michael W. Casey, Anthony L. Dunnavant, David B. Eller, Philip G. A. Griffin-Allwood, Jean F. Hankins, David Edwin Harrell Jr., Nathan O. Hatch, L. Edward Hicks, Richard T. Hughes, Deryck W. Lovegrove, John L. Morrison, Russ Paden, Paul D. Phillips, William C. Ringenberg, Stephen Vaughn, Earl Irvin West, Mont Whitson, Glenn Michael Zuber.
A Brief History of that Movement Known as the Stone-Campbell Movement Or the Restoration Movement
Title | A Brief History of that Movement Known as the Stone-Campbell Movement Or the Restoration Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Charles R. Gresham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Restoration movement (Christianity) |
ISBN |
Renewing the World
Title | Renewing the World PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Holloway |
Publisher | ACU Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0891126848 |
Barton Stone, Thomas Campbell, and Alexander Campbell organized a nineteenth-century Christian renewal movement that later coalesced into three distinct church bodies in the United States: Churches of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. What is less known is that from these humble origins, the Stone-Campbell Movement has grown globally, now with churches in more than 199 countries. This book tells the story from the movement's beginnings all the way to its international expansion into Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Complete with a study guide and personal reflection questions, this book is ideal for longtime members, new members, and those unfamiliar with the Stone-Campbell heritage.
The Stone-Campbell Movement
Title | The Stone-Campbell Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Leroy Garrett |
Publisher | College Press Publishing Company |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
This is possibly the best reference book ever written on the Restoration Movement. Read the years of information that Mr. Garrett has compiled and put into this classic writing. If you want to know how the movement has come to this point in time, this is a must read.
The Stone-Campbell Movement
Title | The Stone-Campbell Movement PDF eBook |
Author | D. Newell Williams |
Publisher | Chalice Press |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 2013-03-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0827235275 |
The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History tells the story of Christians from around the globe and across time who have sought to witness faithfully to the gospel of reconciliation. Transcending theological differences by drawing from all the major streams of the movement, this foundational book documents the movement's humble beginnings on the American frontier and growth into international churches of the twenty-first century.
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement
Title | The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Foster |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 902 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802838988 |
"Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theological treatment of this complex, vibrant global communion. Written by more than 300 contributors, this major reference work contains over 700 original articles covering all of the significant individuals, events, places, and theological tenets that have shaped the Movement. Much more than simply a historical dictionary, this volume also constitutes an interpretive work reflecting historical consensus among Stone-Campbell scholars, even as it attempts to present a fair, representative picture of the rich heritage that is the Stone-Campbell Movement."--BOOK JACKET.
The Myth of the Stone-Campbell Movement
Title | The Myth of the Stone-Campbell Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Cook |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2019-09-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498595626 |
The 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 predicated on the false assumption that Stone influenced people within his movements and proves that Stone was an outsider in the movement that bears his name.