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This is by far the best concise overview of the life and work of Alexander Campbell we have seen. The original publication was a 43 page booklet containing two speeches delivered at Bethany College by Cochran (an attorney and historical novelist of Disciples of Christ background) and Garrett (a professor, church historian, and editor of Church of Christ background), along with a foreword by then president of the college, Perry Gresham. It is a companion to Garrett's comparative study of Alexander Campbell and Thomas Jefferson, also available in e-book format from SCM e-Prints. For a complete list of Kindle e-book publications from this publisher see the Stone-Campbell e-Print Library at Stone-Campbell.org.
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Alexander Campbell was born 12 September 1788 near Ballymena, in the parish of Broughshane, County Antrim, Ireland. His parents were Thomas Campbell and Jane Corneigle Campbell, who were of Scots descent. His father was a Seceder Presbyterian minister.
Like his father, Alexander Campbell was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he was greatly influenced by Scottish Enlightenment philosophy.
After a year in the University of Glasgow he came to America in 1809 to join his father in Washington, Pennsylvania, and in 1811 settled at Bethany, in what later became West Virginia.
In 1812 Campbell was ordained and within a few months assumed leadership of the religious movement that his father had started.
The birth of his first child that year led him to question infant baptism, and intensive study convinced him that baptism by immersion was the only correct form.
His father concurred, and after both were immersed they led the Brush Run congregation into affiliation with the Redstone Baptist Association in 1813.
Baptists began to dislike his anticreedal emphasis so Campbell changed his church's affiliation to a more favorable group, the Mahoning Association in Ohio.
However, after 1827 all Baptist groups began to exclude the Campbellites.
By 1830 the Disciples of Christ (as they were now called) emerged as a distinct movement; all relations with Baptists were officially terminated.
That year Campbell replaced his earlier paper with the Millennial Harbinger, which he edited until his death.
Campbell's adherents were attracted by a similarity of purpose to the Christians in Kentucky associated with Barton W. Stone by 1832, and within a few years the two movements had largely merged.
In 1840 he founded Bethany College and was its president for 20 years.
Tirelessly, he published a translation of the New Testament and numerous theological works.
His debates with Bishop Purcell on Roman Catholicism (1837) and Nathan Lewis Rice on baptism (1843) gained him a national audience, and in 1850 he addressed both houses of Congress.
Campbell edited and published two journals. The first was the Christian Baptist, which he edited from 1823 through 1830. The second was The Millennial Harbinger, which he began in 1830 and continued to edit until his death in 1866. He became less active in it during the 1850s. In both, he advocated the reform of Christianity along the lines as it was practiced on the American frontier. He encouraged contributions by writers who thought differently from him, and the journals encouraged a lively dialogue about issues in the reform movement.
Alexander Campbell died on March 4, 1866 at Bethany, West Virginia.
Alexander Campbell was one of the founders of Disciples of Christ - a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States in the Reformed tradition. He supported the unification of Christians in one Church on the basis of primitive Christianity, not divided by doctrinal barriers. Several American church groups have historical roots in the Campbells' efforts, including the Churches of Christ, the Christian churches and churches of Christ, and Evangelical Christian Church in Canada. Alexander Campbell also grounded Bethany College in what became Bethany, West Virginia.
(This is by far the best concise overview of the life and ...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
(Hardcover book)
Alexander Campbell was a leader of the Restoration Movement, which were seeking to reform the church from within. He did not support the baptism of infants. He came to believe that individuals had to choose conversion for themselves and baptism was not appropriate until they did so.
Quotations:
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do. "
"It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age. "
Alexander Campbell was married to Margaret Brown. The couple had eight children. After the death of Margaret in 1827, Campbell married again to the next year, to Selina Huntington Bakewell on 31 July 1828; the couple had six children.
