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Definition of Campbellites

Campbellites
Christian Chris"tian, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ.] 1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. --Acts xi. 26. 2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. 3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, kr[=i]s"chan.
Campbellite
Campbellite Camp"bell*ite, n. [From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia.] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

Meaning of Campbellites from wikipedia

- reference to the early Restoration Movement, "[t]he terms Campbellism and Campbellites were universally rejected by those to whom they were applied.": 86  Thomas...
- which was the same terminology used by the Campbellites only a few miles away. Therefore, like the Campbellites, the term "Mormonite" was applied to the...
- fundamentalism Millerism (Historical) Stone-Campbell movement (a.k.a. "Campbellites") Two by Twos (a.k.a. "No name church" and "Workers and Friends") Swedenborgianism...
- where Sidney Rigdon and over a hundred followers of his variety of Campbellite Restorationism converted to the Church of Christ, swelling the ranks...
- Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Campbellite United States Followers of Church of Christ Followers of the Church of...
- third president, Benjamin Farnsworth, endured a power struggle with the Campbellites and resigned in 1837. In 1838, Rev. Rockwood Giddings became the fourth...
- program were simply reflective of the school name, like "Campbells" or "Campbellites". The origin of the name "Fighting Camels" is po****rly believed to be...
- Doctrine of the Trinity: Or a Check to Modern Arianism as Taught by Campbellites, Hicksites, New Lights, Universalists and Mormons, and Especially by...
- Some followers after the failed prediction became the Adventists or Campbellites, while other splinter groups eventually became Apocalyptic Restorationists...
- some Baptist groups such as the Freewill Baptists, General Baptists and Campbellites. The doctrine of the Anabaptists at the commencement of the Protestant...