Campbellism

[ kam-buh-liz-uhm, kam-uh- ]

noun

1. the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Campbellism¹

1835–45, Americanism; A. Campbell + -ism

Example Sentences

He became familiar with biblical language, and followed the inclination of those about him to listen to any new-fangled doctrine; and surely the religious teachings of the “Book of Mormon” are positive evidence of the strongest character that the mind of Smith and his coadjutors were greatly influenced by the doctrinal questions that were being agitated at that time in Central New York—Calvinism, Universalism, Methodism, Millerism, Romanism, Campbellism, and other isms.

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Campbellism p. 338distinguishes the Gospel not only from the words of men, but from Scripture generally—that Jesus is its subject. 

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I had been taught to look upon "Campbellism" as the most miserable of all heresies; and till I began to visit at the Maddox house I was seldom in the company of "that deluded people."

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Mr. Maddox and I still engaged in the investigation of Methodism, "Campbellism" and Infidelity.

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The Book of Mormon has revealed the secrets of Campbellism and unfolded the end of the system.

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