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The '''Disciples of Christ''' or formally, '''the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)''' is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.  With roots back to the Stone-Campbell Movement in the early 19th century, it was organized in present form after the [[Church of Christ]] split off around 1900.  It is strongest in the lower Midwest and upper South. It is strongest in the lower Midwest and upper South. The most famous members were presidents [[James Garfield]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[Ronald Reagan]]. Garfied was a minister and college president and Reagan was a graduate of [[Eureka College]], a Disciples school in Illinois.

The '''Disciples of Christ''' or formally, '''the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)''' is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.  With roots back to the Stone-Campbell Movement in the early 19th century, it was organized in present form after the [[Churches of Christ]] split off around 1900.  It is strongest in the lower Midwest and upper South. It is strongest in the lower Midwest and upper South. The most famous members were presidents [[James Garfield]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[Ronald Reagan]]. Garfield was a minister and college president and Reagan was a graduate of [[Eureka College]], a Disciples school in Illinois.

==Disciples of Christ and Church of Christ==

==Disciples of Christ and Church of Christ==

The break around 1900 between the Disciples of Christ and the [[Churches of Christ]] was due to much more than disagreements over the use of music in worship or over missionary societies; it was fundamentally a division between Stonite primitivism and Campbellian modernism. [[Alexander Campbell]] believed in progress toward the Kingdom of God and was both optimistic and not hostile toward the secular world. Barton Stone, on the other hand, wanted a radical separation from the world, was pessimistic about the human nature and prospects for progress, and looked toward restoring the authentic primitive church. From the end of the Civil War to 1917, [[David Lipscomb]] dominated the Churches of Christ and managed to balance the views of Campbell and Stone. After his death, the Churches of Christ moved away from the premillennialism of Stone and Lipscomb and embraced modernism. Foy Wallace, whose views prevailed among the Churches of Christ from the 1930s through the 1950s, led the movement away from the thought of Stone and Lipscomb.<ref> Richard T. Hughes, "The Apocalyptic Origins of Churches Of Christ and the Triumph of Modernism."  ''Religion and American Culture'' 1992 2(2): 181-214. 1052-1151 </Ref>  

The break around 1900 between the Disciples of Christ and the [[Churches of Christ]] was due to much more than disagreements over the use of music in worship or over missionary societies; it was fundamentally a division between Stonite primitivism and Campbellian modernism. [[Alexander Campbell]] believed in progress toward the Kingdom of God and was both optimistic and not hostile toward the secular world. Barton Stone, on the other hand, wanted a radical separation from the world, was pessimistic about the human nature and prospects for progress, and looked toward restoring the authentic primitive church. From the end of the Civil War to 1917, [[David Lipscomb]] dominated the Churches of Christ and managed to balance the views of Campbell and Stone. After his death, the Churches of Christ moved away from the Premillennialism of Stone and Lipscomb and embraced modernism. Foy Wallace, whose views prevailed among the Churches of Christ from the 1930s through the 1950s, led the movement away from the thought of Stone and Lipscomb.<ref> Richard T. Hughes, "The Apocalyptic Origins of Churches Of Christ and the Triumph of Modernism."  ''Religion and American Culture'' 1992 2(2): 181-214. 1052-1151 </Ref>  

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Harrell, David Edwin, Jr. ''A Social History of the Disciples of Christ. Vol. 2, The Social Sources of Division in the Disciples of Christ, 1865-1900.'' (1973). 458 pp.  Scholarly history

* Harrell, David Edwin, Jr. ''A Social History of the Disciples of Christ. Vol. 2, The Social Sources of Division in the Disciples of Christ, 1865-1900.'' (1973). 458 pp.  Scholarly history