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Barton Warren Stone was born on
December 24 1772 to John and Mary Stone in
Port Tobacco,
Maryland. During his childhood he was exposed to the
Church of England,
Baptist,
Methodist and
Episcopal churches.
After going to Guilford Academy in
North Carolina, founded by David Caldwell
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), Stone heard
James McGready (a
Presbyterian minister) speak and eventually became a Presbyterian minister himself. But, as Stone looked more deeply into the beliefs of the Presbyterians, especially the
Westminster Confession of Faith, he became skeptical of the convergence of church and
Biblical beliefs. At odds was the
Calvinistic belief in
total depravity which Stone found inconsistent with the scriptures.
Stone also took issue with the Trinity doctrine and argued against it. "Revelation no where declares that there are three persons of the same substance in the one only God; and it's universally acknowledged to be above reason" (
Address to the Christian Churches, 2nd Edition [1821]).
At the
Cane Ridge (
Kentucky) revival of
1801, Barton W. Stone revealed his new found conviction of faith as prerequisite for
salvation to the chagrin of the Presbyterian Church. He was quickly accused of
Arminianism after which his association with the Presbyterian Church was severed by
Kentucky Synod.
In
1803 the
Springfield Presbytery was formed by Stone and others with the same theology. After reexamination, Barton and others in the presbytery were compelled by the scriptures to dissolve the organization for fear of
Romanization. This led to the famous, "
Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery."
In 1824 Barton W. Stone met with
Alexander Campbell which would eventually lead to the partial unification of the "Christian" (Stone) movement and the "Reformed Baptist" (Campbell) movement into what is commonly called the
Restoration Movement. The congregations that were part of Stone's original movement, which chose not to join with Campbell and his followers, merged with similar
Christian Churches in other parts of the country to form the
Christian Connection.
Barton W. Stone died on
November 9,
1844 in
Hannibal, Missouri.
Barton College (formerly Atlantic Christian College) in
Wilson, North Carolina was named for Barton Stone.
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