The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ)

Denomination·Founded 1809 CE·About 1,113,362 members in roughly 11,790 congregations in the United States, from the directory maintained since 1973 by 21st Century Christian and now the Church Research Council. Both figures have fallen every year since the 1990s. Substantial churches also exist in Nigeria, Ghana, India and Brazil, counted separately and not reliably.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) → 1 branch

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Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 2 You × The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) Discussion

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
A Alexander Campbell — the debater who built a movement and refused a name. An Ulster-born printer, farmer, college founder and formidable public debater who edited the Christian Baptist and then the Millennial Harbinger for forty years. He argued in public against the atheist Robert Owen in 1829 and against a Catholic bishop in 1837, and spent his life insisting the movement not be called after him. Domain Restoration of the New Testament church, baptism, the abolition of creedsStanding The movement refuses to be called Campbellite and has done since the 1830s Meet them — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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