Campbell Movement

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The Campbell Movement was a 19th-century American religious reform effort led by Thomas and Alexander Campbell that sought to restore New Testament Christianity and gave rise to the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Campbell Movement canonical 2
Campbellite movement 1

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Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian restorationist movement
religious reform movement
aim base faith and practice on the New Testament alone
promote Christian unity
reject denominational creeds
restore New Testament Christianity
country United States of America
surface form: United States
denominationalFamily Stone–Campbell Movement
surface form: Restoration Movement
doctrine Bible as sole rule of faith and practice
believers' baptism by immersion
congregational autonomy
foundedBy Alexander Campbell
Thomas Campbell
hasLeader Alexander Campbell
Thomas Campbell
hasPart Brush Run Church
Christian Association of Washington
historicalContext Second Great Awakening
ideology Christian unity through restoration of apostolic Christianity
influenced Churches of Christ
surface form: Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
surface form: Disciples of Christ

Stone–Campbell Movement
surface form: Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
keyText Declaration and Address
language English
location Old West
surface form: American frontier

Virginia
Western Pennsylvania
mergedInto Stone–Campbell Movement
surface form: Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
opposedTo human creeds as tests of fellowship
sectarianism
religion Christianity
slogan Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent
startTime early 19th century
theologicalOrientation primitivism
restorationism

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Churches of Christ emergedFrom Campbell Movement
The Christian Baptist associatedMovement Campbell Movement
Campbellism alternativeName Campbell Movement
this entity surface form: Campbellite movement