The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement [Paperback]

Leroy Garrett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 573 pages
• Publisher: College Press Publishing Company, Inc.; Revised edition (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899009093
• ISBN-13: 978-0899009094
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,229,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great History Source for All Branches of the Restoration M, September 16, 2000

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Larry L. Cawood (Plano, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement (Hardcover)

I purchased this book and read it in 1982. It is a great source for the history of all three branches of the Restoration Movement. Mr Garrett has preached in all three branches of the Movement and is very familiar with all. He was also my American History teacher at Dallas Christian College.

Any way, the book is well documented (footnotes & bibliography). It is easy to read and very informative. It appears to me to be a fair treatment of all three branches of the Movement.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this, May 5, 2009

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Xian woman (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement (Paperback)

If you've ever been in a fundamentalist church, this is your book. It's detailed, well-written, and incredibly deep.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Evaluating the Stone-Campbell unity movement history, July 6, 2008

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THX138 (Butler, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement (Paperback)

The history of the Stone-Campbell movement is an incredible read, whoever records and compiles it. The history by Earl West is equally inspiring. Garrett has done a fine job of compiling and organizing the material, and I learned much from his book. He takes a kind and considerate posture toward the failings of the many characters who make our history, whichever of the three major divisions they may be from.

Occasionally Garrett tips his hand to reveal his judgment on the relative success of the "unity movement" for which he serves as historian. His standard for judgment is the ideal of achieving unity of the Christian sects/denominations, and he sees the noble ideal as largely a practical failure because it not only failed to unite the sects, but divided itself many more times.

But this approach is not helpful. Jesus himself intended unity (John 12), and could be judged a failure for the same reasons. Garrett sees the ideal of unity at odds with "restoration". In other words, the minute an attempt is made to define the church a "limitation" on unity is thereby created. There are insiders and outsiders as a result.

In fact, these sometimes counter goals are the outworking of two others: truth and love. They are equally at play in nascent NT Christianity. They intend unity, but where division results it is not a negative (1 Cor. 11:19). It is the means for discerning true disciple from heretic, true gospel from false.

To be sure, some divisions in the Stone-Campbell movement were not strict applications of the truth-love dynamic. Yet many were. This would have been a better book if truth-love had been the standard the author applied to his evaluations. Unity achieved at the disdain of truth is not a success. Restoration is not a hindrance to this ideal, but its necessary complement.