A curated entry point for foundational texts, periodicals, and longer reading paths across the Stone-Campbell movement.
Barton W. Stone and four fellow ministers publicly dissolved their Presbyterian judicatory, surrendering titles and authority so the congregation at Cane Ridge and its partners could simply be known as "Christians."
A voluntary society, not a church
After his censure and withdrawal from the Seceder Presbyterians, Thomas Campbell gathered his hearers into the Christian Association of Washington — deliberately not a church, but a voluntary society for promoting simple evangelical Christianity. The *Declaration and Address* was written to explain it.
Of the Christian Association of Washington
Thomas Campbell issued this 1809 manifesto as the charter document of the Christian Association of Washington, pleading for visible unity grounded in the New Testament alone and rejecting creedal tests of fellowship.
Monthly Essays on the Ancient Order of Things
A feisty monthly that challenged denominational tradition, defended believer's baptism, and tested the Restoration plea in public print.
Campbell's early monthly essays give the clearest view of the movement's polemical voice and publishing habits.
A modern-speech New Testament for ordinary readers
Campbell's edition of the New Testament — adapted from the Campbell–Macknight–Doddridge translations with extensive critical notes — put a readable Bible in ordinary hands a century before the RSV, and anticipated many of its choices.
A Monthly Series Devoted to Primitive Christianity
Campbell's flagship periodical became the movement's main forum for essays, debates, and correspondence.
The Harbinger broadens the lens from controversy to constructive reform, education, and mission.
Alexander Campbell's Regeneration is a systematic theological treatise originally published in the Millennial Harbinger, presenting his distinctive view that regeneration encompasses fact, testimony, faith, repentance, immersion, and the gift of the Holy Spirit as an integrated process of spiritual renewal. Campbell argues that immersion (baptism) is not merely a symbol but the divinely ordained "bath of regeneration" through which the believer receives remission of sins and the indwelling Spirit. The work became one of the defining statements of Restoration Movement theology on conversion and Christian initiation.
Any Christians Among Protestant Parties?
A "conscientious sister" in Lunenburg, Virginia asked Alexander Campbell how he could find Christians among the unimmersed. His reply — that immersion is of immense importance and still cannot be made the standard of Christian character — is the defining test of the movement's baptismal theology.
Written by Himself, with Additions and Reflections by Elder John Rogers
Stone's autobiography, completed and supplemented by his protégé Elder John Rogers after Stone's death in 1844. Bound together with the Apology of the Springfield Presbytery (1804) and Rogers' six-chapter portrait of Stone's character, this is the principal first-person source for Stone's life, the Cane Ridge revival, the founding of the Christian movement, and the 1832 Stone–Campbell union.
A Southern Voice for Primitive Christianity
Fanning and Lipscomb shaped a durable journal of congregational life, Bible study, and moral formation.
A strong entry point for learning how the Restoration movement developed in the South after the Civil War.
Essays on Doctrine and Church Practice
Lard's review shows the more technical, bookish side of the movement's theological debate.
Short-lived, but important for seeing how movement leaders handled doctrine, controversy, and exegesis.
A call for separation
Issued 18 August 1889 by conservative Illinois leaders, the Sand Creek "Address and Declaration" called for separation from churches that supported missionary societies, instrumental music, located preachers, and fundraising beyond the Sunday contribution — a key marker on the road to the first division.