Churches of Christ
- Grew from
- Restorationist churches
- From
- 1906 AD
- Origin
- The American South
The wing of the Stone-Campbell movement that separated over instruments and missionary societies, counted separately from 1906. It has no denominational offices of any kind, which is a doctrinal position rather than an oversight.
What marks it out
Singing without instruments, on the ground that the New Testament church did not use them and that what scripture does not authorise is not to be added. Weekly communion, baptism by immersion, and congregations linked only by fellowship — no convention, no headquarters, no officers above the local eldership. "No creed but Christ, no book but the Bible."
Alongside it
Also from Restorationist churches.
In the record
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1730–1840 AD Revival
The Great Awakenings
Waves of revival preaching produced the Methodist movement and, later, the Baptist and Restorationist expansion in America.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.