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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Restorationist stream of the Christianity timeline.
Streams: All of Christianity Catholic Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Anglican Lutheran Reformed and Presbyterian Anabaptist Baptist Methodist and Wesleyan Restorationist Pentecostal and Charismatic Independent and Non-denominational
The sacramental meeting at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, draws crowds estimated in the tens of thousands and extraordinary bodily exercises; the revival ignites the Restoration impulse on the frontier and Barton Stone's Christian movement within it.
Barton Stone and his fellow ministers dissolve their presbytery and resolve to be known simply as Christians; the document is the founding charter of the Stone movement and of the Restoration plea for unity on the Bible alone.
Thomas Campbell publishes the Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington, Pennsylvania; its proposition that the church is essentially, intentionally, and constitutionally one becomes the Restoration movement's founding text.
Alexander Campbell launches his journal The Christian Baptist and with it the public campaign for restoring the ancient order of things; his debates and his paper carry the Campbell movement across the frontier.
Stone's Christians and Campbell's Reformers unite at Lexington, Kentucky, with a handshake between Barton Stone and Raccoon John Smith; the united movement becomes the fastest-growing religious body on the American frontier.
The movement holds its first national convention at Cincinnati and organizes the American Christian Missionary Society; the convention itself splits opinion, since many held that any body beyond the local congregation lacked scriptural warrant.
The United States Census of Religious Bodies lists the Churches of Christ separately from the Disciples of Christ, giving federal recognition to the division that had grown over missionary societies and instrumental music; David Lipscomb answers the census for the Churches of Christ.
The Disciples adopt a provisional design and restructure as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a denomination with general, regional, and congregational expressions; congregations that reject the restructure continue as independent Christian churches.
