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Garrison follows the movement from its roots in the American frontier and related British restorationist experiments through the work of Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alexander Campbell, and Walter Scott. He shows how several streams—Stone’s “Christians,” the Campbells’ “Reformers,” and other independent “Churches of Christ”—converged in the 1832 union to form what would become the Disciples of Christ.
In dialogue with his earlier, more detailed history, Religion Follows the Frontier, Garrison emphasizes both the pioneer setting of the Disciples’ beginnings and the ways in which the movement “grew up with the country.” This brief volume provides a clear and readable overview of the people, ideas, and events that shaped the Disciples of Christ and the broader Stone-Campbell heritage.
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Winfred Ernest Garrison (1874–1969) was a leading historian of the Disciples of Christ whose writings helped define modern interpretations of the Stone–Campbell Movement. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was the son of James Harvey Garrison (1842–1931)—editor of the Christian-Evangelist, influential Disciples leader, and one of the movement’s principal early historical interpreters. Educated at Eureka College, Yale University, and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1897), W. E. Garrison served as president of Butler University and later of New Mexico Normal University and New Mexico State University, helped organize the Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago, and was literary editor of the Christian Century from 1923 to 1955. After a decade of retirement he joined the University of Houston as head of the School of Philosophy, continuing to teach well into his eighties.
