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Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith

Nineteenth-Century Restorationists

RoseAnn Benson
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Table of Contents

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  • Forward
    Thomas H. Olbricht and Robert L. Millet
  • Early American Christianity and the Beginnings of Two Restoration Movements
  • Early Life of and Religious Influences on Alexander Campbell
  • Early Life of and Religious Influences on Joseph Smith
  • Section 1
    Restorationism, Primitivism, and Millennialism
  • Enlightenment Versus Enthusiasm
  • Alexander Campbell's Reasoned Restoration
  • Joseph Smith's Revelatory Restoration
  • Section 2
    Systems of Belief
  • Alexander Campbell's Foundational Beliefs
  • Joseph Smith's Articles of Faith
  • Scriptural Commentaries and Emendations
  • Section 3
    Conflict
  • Conversions and Defections
  • Alexander Campbell's "Delusions" and the Mormon Response
  • Waves of Crisis
  • Section 4
    Unique Contributions of Restorationism
  • Alexander Campbell's Unity and Millennialism
  • Joseph Smith's Expansive Eternalism
  • Epiloque
    Final Thoughts on Two Restorationists
  • Index

About the Book

Two nineteenth-century men, Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith, each launched restoration movements in the United States. They vied for seekers and dissatisfied mainstream Christians, which led to conflict in northeastern Ohio. Both were searching for the primordial beginning of Christianity: Campbell looking back to the Christian church described in the New Testament epistles, and Smith looking even further back to the time of Adam and Eve as the first Christians. Campbell took a rational approach to reading the Bible, emphasizing the New Testament, and began by advocating reform among the Baptists. Smith took a revelatory approach to reading the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, and adding new scriptures. This book is a comparison of these two nineteenth-century men and the resto­ration movements they created with an in-depth examination of what restoration meant to both groups, as well as their beliefs, their interactions with each other, their similarities, their differences, and their unique contributions to Christianity.

This book is copublished by BYU Press and Abilene Christian University Press.

ISBN 978-1-9443-9428-8

Published in 2017

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