The Stone-Campbell Movement resulted from a confluence of several international efforts to restore the life and faith of the first century church in the ninetee

History of the American Restoration Movement which spawned three fellowships: Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ),

Two nineteenth-century men, Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith, each launched restoration movements in the United States, pejoratively called Campbellites and

The Stone-Campbell Movement was created in 1832 when Barton Stone’s “Christ-ians” from the West merged with Alexander Campbell’s “Reforming Baptists.�