The Myth Of The Stone Campbell Movement

Author : Jim Cook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498595626
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Stone-Campbell Movement written by Jim Cook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Leroy Garrett
Publisher : College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899009094
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone-Campbell Movement written by Leroy Garrett and published by College Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael W. Casey
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331792
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone-Campbell Movement written by Michael W. Casey and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Douglas A. Foster
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802838988
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement written by Douglas A. Foster and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : James L. Gorman
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 1684269903
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Early Evangelicals written by James L. Gorman and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though many of its early leaders were immigrants, most histories of the Stone-Campbell Movement have focused on the unique, American-only message of the Movement. Typically, the story tells the efforts of Christians seeking to restore New Testament Christianity or to promote unity and cooperation among believers. Among the Early Evangelicals charts a new path showing convincingly that the earliest leaders of this Movement cannot be understood apart from a robust evangelical and missionary culture that traces its roots back to the eighteenth century. Leaders, including such luminaries as Thomas and Alexander Campbell, borrowed freely from the outlook, strategies, and methodologies of this transatlantic culture. More than simple Christians with a unique message shaped by frontier democratization, the adherents in the Stone-Campbell Movement were active participants in a broadly networked, uniquely evangelical enterprise.

Author : Leroy Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone-Campbell Movement written by Leroy Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D Newell Williams
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827235557
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone-Campbell Movement written by D Newell Williams and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the world history of the Stone-Campbell Movement, this book is the newest and most comprehensive volume available.

Author : Elder John Sparks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137268
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by Elder John Sparks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars as part of the Stone-Campbell movement. If Stone and Campbell are considered the architects of the Disciples of Christ and America's first nondenominational movement, then Kentucky's Raccoon John Smith is their builder and mason. Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher is the biography of a man whose work among the early settlers of Kentucky carries an important legacy that continues in our own time. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in the untamed frontier country of Tennessee and southern Kentucky. A quick-witted, thoughtful, and humorous youth, Smith was shaped by the unlikely combination of his dangerous, feral surroundings and his Calvinist religious indoctrination. The dangers of frontier life made an even greater impression on John Smith as a young man, when several instances of personal tragedy forced him to question the philosophy of predeterminism that pervaded his religious upbringing. From these crises of faith, Smith emerged a changed man with a new vocation: to spread a Christian faith wherein salvation was available to all people. Thus began the long, ecclesiastical career of Raccoon John Smith and the germination of a religious revolution. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written, Raccoon John Smith is the first objective and painstakingly accurate treatment of the legendary frontier preacher. The intricacies behind the development of both Smith's personal religious beliefs and the founding of the Christian Church are treated with equal care. Raccoon John Smith is the story of a single man, but in carefully examining the events and people that influenced Elder Smith, this book also serves as a formative history for several Christian denominations, as well as an account of the wild, early years of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Author : Michael W. Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889469921
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle Over Hermeneutics in the Stone Campbell Movement written by Michael W. Casey and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Holloway
Publisher : Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891123736
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise Global History of the Stone-Campbell Movement written by Gary Holloway and published by Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Concise Global History of the Stone-Campbell Movement