Session Two: The Campbells Arrive

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Session Two
The Campbells Arrive
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Thomas Campbell
(1763-1854)
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John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
Nothing in worship or discipline can be
necessary to Christian communion but what Christ
our legislator, or the apostles by inspiration of
the Holy Spirit, have commanded in express words.
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John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
However clearly we may think this or the other
doctrine to be deduced from Scripture, we ought
not therefore to impose it upon others as a
necessary article of faith because we believe it
to be agreeable to the rule of faith.
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John Glas
Robert Sandeman

• Plurality of elders

• Mutual exhortation of members

• Weekly Communion

• Faith in Christ as the means for salvation

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James Haldane (1768-1851) Robert Haldane
(1764-1842)

• Encouraged lay preaching

• Practiced weekly Communion

• Taught believers immersion

• Advocated congregational autonomy

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Thomas Campbell in America

• Charged with heresy (1807)

• Leaves the Presbyterians

• Forms the Christian Association of Washington

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak where the
Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
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Where the Scriptures speak, we speak where the
Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
Andrew Munro Mr. Campbell, if we adopt that as
a basis, then there is an end of infant baptism.
Thomas Campbell Of course, if infant baptism be
not found in the Scriptures, we can have nothing
to do with it.
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Where the Scriptures speak, we speak where the
Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
Thomas Acheson I hope I may never see the day
when my heart will renounce the blessed saying of
Scripture, Suffer little children to come unto
me and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.
James Foster Mr. Acheson, I would remark that
in the portion of Scripture you have quoted,
there is no reference whatever to infant baptism.
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Thomas Campbell
(1763-1854)
The Declaration and Address
Unity of all Christians
Commitment to biblical authority
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The Church of Christ upon earth is essentially,
intentionally and constitutionally one
consisting of all those in every place that
profess their faith in Christ and obedience to
him in all things according to the Scriptures,
and that manifest the same by their tempers and
conduct, and of none else as none else can be
truly and properly called Christians.
Thomas Campbell
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Nothing ought to be inculcated upon Christians
as articles of faith nor required of them as
terms of communion, but what is expressly taught
and enjoined upon them in the word of God.
Thomas Campbell
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For the church to require more than Christ
himself did, or make the condition of her
communion more than our Savior did for
discipleship, is wholly unwarranted.
Edward Stillingfleet (1659)
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Alexander
Thomas
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All reasons and motives borrowed from the Jewish
law, to excite the disciples of Christ to a
compliance with or an imitation of Jewish customs
are inconclusive, repugnant to Christianity, and
fall ineffectual to the ground not being
enjoined or countenanced by the authority of
Jesus Christ.
Alexander Campbell
Sermon on the Law,
1816
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Developments
1818 begins Buffalo Seminary
1823 Alexander and 30 members leave Brush Run
church
1824 joins the Mahoning Baptist Association
1824 Redstone Baptist Association eliminates
the Brush Run church
1829 Beaver Baptist Association excommunicates
entire Mahoning Baptist Association
1830 Mahoning Baptist Association dissolves
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Differences between Campbells and Baptists
1) Baptism
2) Creeds and confessions of faith
3) Saving faith
4) Lords Supper
5) Distinction between Old and New Testaments
6) Clergy and laity distinction
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Publications
The Christian Baptist (1823-1830)
Millennial Harbinger (1830-1870)
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Thomas Campbell (1763-1854)
Alexander Campbell (1788-1866)
Walter Scott (1796-1861)
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Union between Campbell and Stone
December 31, 1831-January 1, 1832
Lexington, Kentucky
Let us then my brethren, be no longer
Campbellites or Stoneites, New Lights or Old
Lights, or any other kind of lights. But let us
come to the Bible and the Bible alone, as the
only book in creation that can give us all the
Light we need.
Raccoon John Smith
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Differences
1) View on baptism
2) View of clergy
3) Evangelistic methods
4) View of communion
5) View of the Trinity
6) View of the atonement
7) Different names
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We have many good brethren in Illinois.
Campbellism they cannot swallow they cannot
drink so much water.
1837
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My dear sir, we are not consummate blockheads to
leave the Word of God for rules laid down by
brother Campbell or any other man.
Barton
Stone 1841
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Joseph Badger, representing the Smith-Jones
Movement, travels to Kentucky in 1825
A few years ago, our brethren in the east,
forgetting that the churches were independent,
and dazzled with the pomp of a General
Conference, resolved among themselves to
constitute one in the East one in the South,
and another in the West. We in the West were
solicited to co-operate in this measure. We saw
it unauthorized by the New Testament, and
therefore refused our co-operation.
Barton
Stone 1833
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Sidney Rigdon (1793-1876)
John Thomas (1805-1871)
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Alarm sounds
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Benjamin Franklin

• Movement caught in a status quo state

• Poor preaching

• Need renewed emphasis on prayer and Bible study

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Where the Scriptures speak, we speak where the
Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
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Argument against national society

• Scriptures are silent concerning such an
  organization

• Only God-ordained missionary society is the
  local church

• If 2 is true, then all other societies are not
  ordained by God and therefore are heretical

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Keys to impending division

• Similar methodologies used in slavery and
  pacifism arguments, were the same methodologies
  used in the missionary society and instrumental
  music arguments

• What brought the arguments to a head was the
  increased organization of the Disciples

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Two major influences on Lipscomb
1. Conflict between Robert Richardson and Tolbert
Fanning

• The role of the Holy Spirit in conversion

• How is knowledge of God derived

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Two major influences on Lipscomb
2. Jesse Ferguson (1819-1870) situation

• Controversy surrounding I Peter 318-20

• Ferguson saw his views as opinion, while others
  claimed the teaching/belief was a matter of faith

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It is again asked, why so zealous for Christian
union? I answer, because I firmly believe that
Jesus fervently prayed to his Father that
believers might all be one that the world might
believe in him as sent by the Father.
Barton Stone, 1826
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When we have found ourselves out of the way we
may seek for the ancient paths, but we are not at
liberty to invent paths for our feet. We should
return to the Lord.
Alexander Campbell, 1825
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Transition in Leadership