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Item Alexander Campbell and the ancient order: A rhetorical analysis(2012-12) Martin, Meredith L; Gring, Mark A.; Langford, Catherine L.; Hughes, Patrick C.This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of Alexander Campbell’s “Sermon on the Law” and his column “On the Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things.” Campbell was one of the leaders of the Restoration Movement, a religious movement during the Second Great Awakening, which birthed three individual denominations. This thesis adds to the limited conversation between rhetoric and the Restoration Movement by analyzing Campbell’s sermon and column with Burke’s cluster-agon analysis to explore significant terministic screens. The results of this analysis provides textual evidence for many foundational ideologies of the Churches of Christ including the argument for not preaching the law before the gospel, autonomous church government, and a pure hermeneutical approach to interpreting the Scripture.Item The myth of the Stone-Campbell movement(Texas Tech University, 2007-08) Cook, James J.; Stoll, Mark; Adams, Gretchen A.; Webb, Mark O.; Lorcin, PatriciaThe Stone-Campbell Movement was created in 1832 when Barton Stone's "Christ-ians" from the West merged with Alexander Campbell's "Reforming Baptists." By the beginning of the Civil War it was the sixth largest religious movement in the United States. In the twentieth century the movement split into three main branches that exist today. In recent years, scholars from these branches have worked to better understand their nineteenth-century roots. A historical sub-field often called "restoration history" has emerged, in which historians and other scholars debate the influence of Stone and Campbell on certain characteristics of the existing branches. This dissertation uses the writings of both Stone and Campbell to show that Stone was never a viable leader of the movement after 1832, and his ideas were never part of what influenced the various men and ideas that led to the development of the twentieth-century branches of the movement. The debates going on between "restoration historians" are thus predicated on the false assumption that Stone influenced people within the movement. The evidence presented in this dissertation proves that Stone was an outsider in the movement that bears his name. This dissertation furthermore provides evidence that Stone's broad and inclusive view of Christianity was an influence on another group called the Christian Connexion which partly grew out of Stoneite churches that openly rejected the 1832 union with Campbell. The history of the Christian Connexion and its development into the twentieth-century ecumenical movement called the United Church of Christ represents Barton Stone's true legacy.